Word: cosmopolitan
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...Ally is edging into activism. After his complaints about "pornographic" covers of Cosmopolitan failed to get the magazine banned from Wal-Mart, Ally sold Timothy's 9,200 shares of Wal-Mart stock. Then he banded together with several other Christian groups, including the American Decency Association and the Family Research Council, to petition Wal-Mart...
...Certainly, there are elements of cultural tension: Even as the family prepares to celebrate an arranged marriage, they speak in a jumble of Hindi and English (the young men tell everyone to “chill” in English, while grandmothers speak only Hindi) and the girls read Cosmopolitan. While Nair evidently reveres traditional culture through her attention to details during the wedding preparations, she highlights the liberating effects of western culture on the more suffocating elements of daily Indian life...
...have been the universal summer footwear for years--cheap and utilitarian, if not particularly fashionable. But the humble rubber thong is this summer's stylish shoe. Havaianas, colorful flip-flops from Brazil, are selling out at high-end boutiques and cropping up in style magazines like Vogue, Elle and Cosmopolitan; they were recently seen on the Paris catwalk of designer Jean-Paul Gaultier. Selling for just $3 in Brazil, the shoes are fetching from $12 to $80 in the U.S. For fashionistas seeking a more formal summer look, Sigerson Morrison has created a new silhouette for the flip-flop...
...first listen, the instruments employed by Yorkston and The Athletes—acoustic guitars, piano and light percussion—seem borrowed from Peter, Paul and Mary. Yet the band also employs mandolins, clappers and bouzoukis, in an apparent attempt to lend the record a cosmopolitan flavor...
...local talent is a little less lustrous, but that actually proves the genius behind the festival. Co-founders Jane Camens and Nury Vittachi, both literary-minded journalists, envisioned cosmopolitan Hong Kong as the perfect center in which to showcase "great writing with Asian roots," a category that can include just about anything with a gloss of soy sauce: expats writing Asia-based historical fiction, hyphenated Asians getting back to their roots, nonfiction writers discovering the region. Not to mention the proliferating literary output from the other side of the border with mainland China. Asian books are hot in the literary...