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...years after the original pilot aired, change has come to the iconic California zip code, in the form of grownups with character arcs, lead cast members of color you can't get in a tanning booth, recreational YouTubing and espresso drinks. "Fans of the original show will be taken aback at first," says Jennie Garth, returning as Kelly Taylor, now a guidance counselor at West Beverly High and a single mom. Those who remember Kelly's date rape, diet-pill addiction, amnesia, miscarriage, cult membership and house-fire episodes will be glad to know her biggest problem now is finding...
...While the lives of the CCAA artists were shaped by the terrors of war and oppression under the warlords, the Soviet and the Taliban, their creations are unashamedly exuberant and political. Often full of color and strong in contrasts, they speak of the desire for liberty, peace, and social justice - especially for women. "Shining even through that which is narrow and dark ... is the belief in the effect of artistic expression," comments Claus-Peter Haase from the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin. "That is admirable...
...neutrally and farsightedly as a political duty of enlightenment," says curator Eleonora De Saavedra. So the sordid or brutal realities the painters pick as their themes are never depicted too vividly or destructively: "The language of the paintings is not one of violence or debate," explains Saavedra. "It's color, light, a trace, a document of the hand [that made it], of the soul, of the individual...
...better." Says Ivor Conolley, who owns The Last Resort, a bed-and-breakfast inn near Lilly's restaurant in Trelawny, "The whole country feels right now as if good things are happening to us for a change." In cities like Kingston, in fact, seemingly everyone is wearing yellow, the color of Jamaica's athletic uniform, to work and draping the national flag on their cars, says Beckford. She hopes the wave of enthusiasm will prompt Jamaican businesses to invest more in sports sponsorship, especially the construction of more modern athletic facilities...
...what can mundane writings, like personal notes on "a violent dust-storm" in the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1938, or the purple color of ripe olives at a Moroccan market tell us about the man who brought us the chilling phrases Big Brother, newspeak and doublethink...