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...early septuagenarians, with the majority being Gen X-ers in their late 20s and early 30s. Many were well prepared for the ordeal. I saw auditioners applying suntan lotion in varying SP factors, drinking bottled water sporting various designer labels, and several comfort-loving individuals who had brought portable beach chairs and recliners to help them endure what looked like a three-hour wait. They did not look like hardy types ready to brazen out an extended ordeal in the Outback, let alone the Hollywood jungle...
...also a time of revolt against the conventionality of postwar America - that obligatory wholesomeness captured in Malcolm Morley's Beach Scene, with its picture-perfect family frolicking on the sand while the father's eerily bestial smile hints at the dark underbelly of the American dream. As writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac raged against bourgeois conformism, and the nation's youth turned on to sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the Pop Art movement provided the technicolor iconography of a full-fledged counterculture...
...into the stomach-share king of the nascent Thai pizza market, can mount an Oedipal (and edible) challenge to his former employer with his new enterprise. They've doubted him before. In 1980, when the young American expatriate opened the region's first Pizza Hut in the Thai beach town of Pattaya, even his friends were sure he would fail. Thais don't eat cheese. Thais don't eat bread. And so Thais certainly won't eat pizza, they reasoned. More than 100 pizza restaurants and a cheese factory later, Heinecke has proved them wrong. (It turns out Thais...
...closest airstrip was on the resort island of Hainan, known in Chinese legend as the "end of the world," where the sky and sea meet to form a perfect haven. It is also home to many Chinese military bases, the kind of place where honeymooners sit on the beach and watch the submarines surface offshore, the fighter jets buzz overhead. You couldn't pick a worse place to land one of the most highly classified planes the U.S. has ever built, full of secrets about how we gather secrets?if the pilots could manage to land...
...horrors? To be sure, there's some commercial calculation in the theater's Holocaust obsession. This a subject, after all, that appeals largely to older Jewish theatergoers, one of Broadway's most loyal constituencies. ("The Gathering's" pre-Broadway run included stops in Ft. Lauderdale and Palm Beach, Fla.) Yet the Holocaust has hardly been a surefire audience grabber. Even the well-reviewed 1998 Broadway revival of "The Diary of Anne Frank" was a box-office disappointment...