Word: centricity
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...Naughty Bits," by Roberta Gregory Roberta Gregory's "Naughty Bits" gets props as the only unabashedly female-centric comic currently in existence. Its complex heroine, Midge, flaunts the conventions of what women are allowed to do in comics and other pop-culture media. Midge, aka Bitchy Bitch, is fast approaching 40, hates her pointless desk job, uses "marital aids" without being married, gets very angry very quickly, judges people, and seems to menstruate much more than ordinary. Still, her desire for love and satisfaction make her sympathetic. She has acquired a large enough fan base that...
...what a permanent house-centric college might look like, one only needs to look at Yale's college system. There, students are a part of their diverse residential community from the beginning of their first-years year. The social results of this college focus could be seen by anyone who attended the Harvard-Yale game. It was impressive seeing the twelve college flags waving in the student section, hearing Yale singing their fight song in unity and wading among the hundreds of Yale students and alumni who were attending their college tailgates at the Harvard Business School parking...
...appropriate that this should happen in this most TV-centric of the three debates - the town hall debate, the Oprah debate, the debate format in which Bill Clinton in 1992 ushered in eight years of talk-show politics. And how ironic, in a debate where professional journalists otherwise faded into the background. In St. Louis, a group of midwesterners, having been judged by popular opinion to be more normal than anyone else in America (and I assure you, as a native of Michigan, that this is not true), were selected to ask the questions...
Each of the four guest rooms is decorated in an Afro-centric theme. The sunny Ashante Suite features African artifacts and textiles and hauntingly beautiful sculptures. Visitors tell Greenwood that staying in the Black Memorabilia Suite--with its old quilts, rag dolls and Louis Armstrong wax record from the 1940s--is "like going to Grandma's house down South." The romantic Jumping-the-Broom Suite, with double Jacuzzi, is popular with honeymooners, whom Greenwood greets with champagne, strawberries and cream...
...really? Spy's rarefied, Manhattan-centric humor wouldn't be likely to find a mass audience online, but the cheap, egalitarian Web has long been a haven for wisenheimers: the cutting commentary of Suck www.suck.com) the deadpan fake-newspaper Onion www.theonion.com and the esoteric wit of McSweeney's www.mcsweeneys.net) More recently, old media have tried to get Blair Witch-y with sites like Time Warner's Entertaindom www.entertaindom.com) whose flashy but lame Hollywood spoofs prove the rule that online humor is funny in inverse proportion to its budget. And even in the Web's grownup days of corporate sites...