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...real promise of all this change is that it will enrich all of us, not just a bunch of kids in Silicon Valley. With online price comparisons, automatic grocery shopping and the ability to get whatever we want whenever we want it, 21st century Americans will face a radical reshaping of the consumer culture we've been building since the 1950s. Think, for a second, about the revolution that shopping malls created in the 1970s and 1980s. They defined not only how we bought stuff but also how we spent our time. The malls themselves became essential parts...
There's the pain. Years later, when Rock was 25 years old and on the stand-up circuit, he turned the experience into a punch line. "Ain't nothing more horrifying than a bunch of poor white people," Rock joked in his act. "They blame n_______ for everything... 'Space shuttle blew up! Them damn n______, that's what...
McGarrell, who describes himself as a "teacher," insists that the group is an informal bunch of friends that "gets together on Friday nights to drink beer and play trombones...
...never been a culture that made it easy to admit defeat. This year, in despair over malfeasance investigations and bankruptcies, more than a dozen prominent bureaucrats and businessmen have committed suicide. More important, the changes being discussed go far beyond dropping lifetime employment and closing the doors on a bunch of banks. Critics are calling for a complete overhaul of the much celebrated education system and drastic new environmental regulations, not to mention a reassessment of how Japan will deal with its biggest future headache: the world's most rapidly aging society...
...read that right. For to shatter the mighty meteor, a hydrogen bomb must be sunk deep into its core. That means hiring a wild bunch of wildcat oil drillers, led by Bruce Willis, to do the deed. They are all overgrown boys, designed to appeal to the undergrown boys who are this movie's prime audience. The roughnecks immediately start squabbling with the fly-right NASA nerds--representing responsible, clueless adulthood--who must hurriedly train them for space flight, deliver them to their target on time and admit in the end that obstreperous irresponsibility has its uses. Stupid as this...