Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles, with revolution on his mind. Dressed in a hooded red sweat top, his dreads tucked into a knit cap, he takes a seat at a corner table and exchanges what, for him, passes as small talk--how money is corrupting politics, the effect of advertising on the editorial content of magazines--before getting down to important issues. He thinks Subcomandante Marcos, leader of Mexico's Zapatista rebels, should be TIME's Man of the Century. On Rage's last CD, De la Rocha co-wrote a song about the Zapatistas, People of the Sun. Now, passion in his voice...
...content with selling 400,000 vibrators a year in Britain, privately held Ann Summers has embarked on an aggressive expansion program. It is increasing the number of its British stores to 75 and pushing its Internet sales. In July it opened the first overseas Ann Summers shop, in Sydney, Australia. Earlier this month it opened a new two-story, 5,000-sq.-ft. store--complete with a coffee bar--on Dublin's fashionable O'Connell Street. And the firm plans to open outlets early next year in Tokyo and even Saudi Arabia. Gold is also keen to take...
...course, always sells. Pornography websites were among the first to turn a profit in e-commerce. So-called adult material accounts for 69% of the $1.5 billion worth of online content--services that can be downloaded, including music and games--in the U.S. and Western Europe, according to a May 1999 study by research firm Datamonitor. But taking sanitized sex to the masses--and particularly to women--has given purveyors of erotica an entirely new audience. "Taking the smut out of sex is a clever thing to do," says Michael Poyner, retailing expert with London consultants Credo Group...
...Second of all, I guess it's more just the way they go about trying to attain this impossible ideal, with such paternalistic, overbearing measures. Do you know I have to fill out a contract to throw a bash? Talk about sucking away spontaneous fun. The administration seems so content to treat us like little kids, rather than the mature individuals we are. I mean, come on, we all got into Harvard, didn't we? That's got to count for something...
...Gustave Moreau canvases), "America: Art After 1950" (including a Frank Stella and Jackson Pollock), and "Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing." Upcoming exhibitions include: Oct. 30-Jan. 23, 2000: "Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650," and Nov. 27-March 26: "The Shape of Content: The Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive at Harvard." In addition to the collections on display, the Agnes Morgan Center, located on the first floor of the museum, has an astounding collection of prints, drawings, and photographs available for private viewing...