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...catapulted to the top of the bestseller list. But the success of his year-and-a-half research, completed while Brands was a professor at the University of Texas, Austin, is not surprising given the country’s odd new obsession with history. Doing to literary culture what Britney Spears did for music, a penchant for biographies averaging over 400 pages has made American history a sexy, best-selling pop phenomenon...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ben Franklin? Sexy? Brands Remakes Biography | 4/26/2002 | See Source »

...space, this list would go on almost indefinitely. Little Richard, Jon Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Garth Brooks, Cher, Leonard Bernstein, Rod Stewart and Robbie Williams have all sung The King’s high praises. Apparently even Britney Spears has been moved: “I think Elvis is the sexiest man to ever walk the earth. I love...

Author: By Lee HUDSON Teslik, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Love Him Tender: The King Is Back | 4/26/2002 | See Source »

However, Cohen does not provide adequate support for this bold claim. After all, how many Asian-American musical artists in America today can rival the popularity of Britney Spears in Asia? Whereas American culture in Asia is seen as a force of modernization, it seems that Asian culture in America is limited to the realm of kitschy pop culture, like the Chinese characters and designs that bombard shoppers at Urban Outfitters. Cohen’s desire to demonstrate the growing Asian influence on America often leads to exaggeration...

Author: By Jessica S. Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Understanding “Asianization” | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

Looking at commercials today, Bob Dole is drooling over a gyrating Britney Spears in order to sell Pepsi—an incarnation of the Lolita phenomenon. Though Mitchell feels that in the past children’s films have been less than pleasurable experiences for older moviegoers, he states that films aimed towards children have recently become very savvy and now try to integrate two levels of humor—one aimed at children and another aimed towards parents. Monsters Inc., Shrek, Toy Story 2—all of these films are very clever and include humor that older audiences...

Author: By Vijay A. Bal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mitchell Talks Movies | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...Britney and Justin— true love or fake me out? Well, it’s over now. Let’s just say they didn’t discuss all the intimate details of their relationship and the activities that implied...

Author: By Arielle J. Cohen and Cornelia L. Griggs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Dormroom Dialogue with a Vengeance | 4/11/2002 | See Source »

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