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...includes us in the conflict between the jail-barred motif of the Chinese half of the banner and the American stars and stripes that is at the heart of this play. From the very beginning, color is central to the understanding of the contrasts between China and the consumerist American society with which Bibi identifies herself. Bibi comes onto the stage dressed in rainbow colors; in contrast, the only colors that are allowed in China, according to Karen, are "gray, blue and green." This is part of the goal of director Due Quach '00 to present "true historical events...
...more important, an underbooked New Year's is a letdown only by a fairly consumerist measure, one that assumes you can divine enthusiasm and millennial spirit in terms of buzz and box office, units moved and luxury suites occupied. People are not so much dismissing the event as trying to determine how to mark it in a way that's meaningful to them. So a lot of people are making low-key, local plans, like neighbors and single dads Bruce Rave and Charlie O'Dowd of Albuquerque, N.M., who are planning a minimalist block party...
...feminists before them--were not choosing to come together and rebel against the society that had thrown them into this crisis. For though her subjects tend to rail against "feminazis," women are not the true culprits, she believes. Men--just like women, in fact--are victims of a competitive, consumerist, "ornamentalist" system that strips men of their sense of belonging and their ability to nurture and be nurtured...
...earlier generation's free-love crusades, but the two movements are quite different. A desire to break out of the old-fashioned strictures fueled the '60s movement, and its participants made sexual freedom a kind of new religion. That sort of reverence has been replaced by a more consumerist attitude. In a 1972 cover story, TIME declared, "Teenagers generally are woefully ignorant about sex." Ignorance is no longer the rule. As a weary junior high counselor in Salt Lake City puts it, "Teens today are almost nonchalant about sex. It's like we've been to the moon too many...
Pittman, who helped build MTV from a low-budget cable channel into an empire of hair and attitude, believes in that consumerist approach. He's fond, for instance, of telling the story of the time when, as CEO of Six Flags, he spent time working as a street sweeper in pursuit of a broom's-eye-view of its New Jersey theme park. Pittman has an intense charm that makes him a natural for AOL's dichotomous culture, where V.P.s brag alternately about late nights and mountain-biking exploits. "I've spent my whole life building brands," he says...