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From the outside, the mausoleum still looks impeccable, its brown marble and granite façade polished to a gleaming shine. But today Vladimir Lenin's tomb is a site of only passing interest, and the gleam from its walls reflects the lights of the shops across Red Square: Louis Vuitton, Kenzo, Chanel. "The only Muscovites who come here are showing a visitor around," says a policeman on duty near the tomb. "Always out-of-towners. You can tell from their clothes--like ours from about 15 years ago." The officer hasn't been inside to see Lenin's embalmed body...
...confidently as she exudes sexuality in “Boogie Nights”), her Evelyn is, as her husband points out, “just too damn happy.” The shock she displays upon winning a bicycle is almost as affected as the unfazed façade she puts on for her kids when Kelly tears into one of his asinine drunken outbursts. Thus, by the time Evelyn finally breaks down towards the film’s end, it is hard to believe her assertion that she actually is “human...
Much the same could be said about our government and its approach to protecting the nation. The default mode of the current administration has been to exert only as much effort as is needed to uphold its fragile façade of order and competence. This philosophy might have worked in a world devoid of unpredictable external forces, but it certainly does not work in the world of reality. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks four years ago and Hurricane Katrina today, public grief and outrage catalyzed the reevaluation and eventual reform of malnourished, incompetent national systems...
Time marches, seniors graduate, and a new slate of games goes up across the river on Blodgett Pool’s brick façade. The reality of the new season, like the adjustment from gridiron to groupie, is rapidly dawning...
...underneath the façade of generosity is a huge cash cow. Bottled water is one of the most profitable retail beverages, and Starbucks is clearly aiming to increase its sales of water with Ethos’ marketing campaign, which includes brochures and signs in its stores. Considering that Starbucks has 4,666 stores in the U.S. (as of April) and charges $1.80 per bottle—for an approximate $1 profit (Starbucks wouldn’t confirm this amount)—the corporation is set to make far more in profit from Ethos than what it has promised...