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Brooks admits that he covets sales the way George Steinbrenner does trophies, and Scarecrow, which arrived at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart, will land on millions of CD shelves. But unless there's a comeback in the offing, his legacy will be determined by the numbers...
...glad I don't live in Seoul. Everywhere you go in South Korea's sprawling capital, there are reminders that the World Cup is coming to town: the official logo is on practically every billboard, the concrete curbside flower beds are shaped like footballs and the lights from the giant new soccer stadium blaze up into the night sky. Worst of all are the electronic signboards that count down the days to the May 31 kickoff. As if it isn't hard enough waiting for the tournament to begin, you have to be reminded constantly how much longer you have...
...Martian princess interpretation of her exotic sexuality. “Oops!” was colorful enough for the young set, yet interesting enough for a broader audience. MTV’s Total Request Live gives teen pop more exposure than most other genres, and in an age of Billboard chart apathy to her singles, it is the primary outlet for her national exposure...
...earned it renown as the symbolic birthplace of Chinese martial arts. Just ask the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service: it thought Yan Ming should register his hands as lethal weapons when he applied for a green card. Just ask the Henan Tourist Bureau: it put Yan Ming on a billboard of provincial treasures. Or ask Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, John Woo and Chow Yun-fat: they all call Yan Ming shifu, or master. Just don't ask the abbot of the Shaolin Temple; he "prefers not to talk about Yan Ming...
...Ono’s career. Ono has said that her art is about the power of the imagination to change the world through “wishing.” This principle underscored her and Lennon’s anti-war campaign of 1969, in which they erected giant billboards in prominent locations in cities across the world reading “WAR IS OVER!” as if simply endorsing the sentiment would effect an empirical change. While Ono’s conceptual pieces can be highly intellectual, the billboard campaign demonstrates the extreme idealism upon which...