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Imagine a busy street corner in downtown Oakland. Some bandana-wearing homes are chilling by a bench. A televangelist pleads for money from behind the window of a hardware store. A Red Hot Chili Peppers album is blaring out of a six foot boom box, and the merciless Californian sun is beating down upon the whole scene like a catalyst for a violent reaction...
...Fortunately, Hillary Clinton, the latest wife to be challenged to fit perfectly into the ill-defined role of political spouse, is more interesting than that. At her home, Christmas Eve dinner for longtime friends and family was more potluck than Bon Appetit: it consisted of chili and black beans supplemented by leftovers from an official dinner. She plays pinochle and Pictionary with such vigor that friends have to remind her they're only games. She succumbs to yuppie overdoting on her daughter, 11. "There is Chelsea standing on a chair singing Angels We Have Heard on High...
...ethnic wing of this are things like Chili's or Chevy's which serve denatured Mexican food with the same pleasant, harmless tastes as their Anglo-counterparts...
GAPIFIED CULTURE is also destroying American sense of place. As Gapification spreads across the country, as malls everywhere pick up their Limited Express and fern-bar restaurants, locational individuality vanishes. Chili's tells us that its restaurants are "Like no place else...
This is, of course, a lie. The Chili's on Mount Auburn St. is the same as the Chili's on Huntington Ave. In Boston is the same as the Chili's on 3rd Ave. in New York is the same as the Chevy's in San Francisco is the same as every Bennigan's is the same as every Houlihan's is the same every T.G.I. Friday's. Every Gap is like every other Gap, whether you are in London, England, Austin, Texas, or Durham, North Carolina. And every Gap is like every Limited or Bennetton...