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...formation, and eyes riding hands and feet into battle, their toes and fingers blazing like machine guns. Ultimately, Mutant Aliens gives Plympton the opportunity to cram into an 80-minute time span every ingredient that one could ask for in a cartoon: blood, gore, sex, fast cars, an orbiting billboard the size of Oregon, and a peppy Christian ditty titled “Can’t Drag Race With Jesus...
...crowd are flying high on the current success of recent acts such as the Beatles (signed in 1962), who recently spent an unprecedented eight weeks atop the Billboard album charts with their "1" hits compilation. The famously moody art deco hotel had been transformed into a Moroccan disco on three levels, complete with incense, scattered cushions and the sort of ear-splitting techno music middle-aged record executives love to have people think they listen to all the time. The party bulged at the seams with hundreds of middle-aged men in black (many of them also bulging...
...stores like the Limited Too and GapKids. Girls who only a moment ago played with Barbie now play at being Britney. "Walk around any shopping mall, and you'll see mirror images of her all over the place," says Larry Flick, an editor at the music trade magazine Billboard. Some schools are cracking down on the lookalikes, stiffening dress codes to stamp out racy attire. Parents, for their part, are rolling their eyes and trying to walk the line between fashion and fascism...
Lauren E. Baer '02, a social studies concentrator in Dunster House, is associate editorial chair of The Crimson. In addition to writing parodies of billboard hits and waxing sentimental about national holidays, she will continue to investigate injustices at Harvard, in America and abroad. Her column, which is running for a second semester, appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...Later, as I ride in a taxi back to my R.E.M.-fan-encircled hotel, and after I pass the many multicolored billboards announcing Rock in Rio with all those pictures of enraptured Internet-connected youth, I see one sign that really stands out. It's a billboard of Cristo Redentor standing behind a huge, sweating can of Pepsi, almost like he's about to throw his arms around it. But I'm not thinking about Jesus' Pepsi just this moment. I'm thinking about how I'm gonna fit into that stupid T-shirt...