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...time in the 60s and 70s -it can't last forever, you know?" Though he's referring to the Mitchell brothers, one of whom killed the other in 1991, he could have meant the whole porno chic scene. Professional actors, even of marginal competence, gave way to born-and-bred porn stars like John Holmes in the 70s and Traci Lords in the 80s. "The turning point," says porn director Ed Deroo, "came in 1982, when it finally went all video. I missed film tremendously. Film had soul; video had nothing. Video's just a way of making money...
...Chickens bred for meat, too, lead miserable lives. Nearly nine billion chickens are raised and killed for food in the U.S.—one million are slaughtered every hour. Over their 45-day average lifetime, the chickens are overcrowded inside filthy sheds on factory farms where they live amidst their own waste. But the most serious welfare problem for these birds is their selective breeding, which causes them to grow so quickly that they suffer from painful heart and lung ailments and crippling leg disorders. Thirty years ago, researchers reported in the Veternary Report, “We consider...
...Orange Revolution a model for other countries in Russia's "near abroad"? The orange revolution stands for the faith of the people in their own strength. The dejection in post-Soviet - and not just post-Soviet - countries was bred by the feeling that the people couldn't change anything in politics. Georgia and Ukraine prove that when the people trust in themselves, the politicians grow compliant. Is the drive behind the orange revolution fizzling out? The festive part is all forgotten. Our drive now is in working hard. It will likely take more time and effort to fix things than...
Would the real Kazuo Ishiguro please stand up? The 50-year-old novelist is a tough man to classify. Born in Nagasaki, bred in Surrey (where he lived from the age of 5), he looks Japanese, but speaks with the accent of public-school England. Three of his six novels are set in the Far East, the other three explore the quintessence of Englishness. After the stately, hugely successful The Remains of the Day, which spawned the 1993 movie, Ishiguro went wild; his next two novels - The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans - subjected their characters to chaos, violence...
Growing up, I had heard this phrase yelled at me so many times that it shook my faith in being an American. Sometimes I had trouble believing I was really from the United States, born and bred in New Jersey...