Word: cosmopolitanization
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...Sidney Falco - what underworld poetry that name expresses! What an amalgam of Jewish brain and Italian muscle! What a collision of the scurrying nebbish (Sidney) and the soaring predator (falcon)! Sidney is the protagonist of "Sweet Smell of Success," originally a novelette by Ernest Lehman, published in 1950 in Cosmopolitan. Seven years later, the story, rewritten by playwright Clifford Odets, was made into a film directed by Alexander Mackendrick and starring Curtis as Sidney and Lancaster as the Winchellesque columnist J.J. Hunsecker - another fabulous name, for an Attila who sucks the honey out of his minions and spits it into...
...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 the boys watch MTV. In any case, Nair’s message on globalization is unclear, for while she 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...
...More is Cosmopolitan all grown up, My Generation is the younger sibling of Modern Maturity. The AARP, which tries to recruit everyone over 49, struggled for years to make its membership magazine appeal to the 50-year-old corporate executive as well as the 85-year-old pensioner, says publisher Jim Fishman, 61. "Instead of trying to be all things to all people, we decided to launch a new magazine for the younger portion of our readership...
...deep underlying problem. Splurging $80,000 to potentially acquire a dream mate through an artificial amount of luck, charm and personality follows the disturbing trend where individuals deliberately change who they are to attract others. Women are just as guilty as men. Pick up any edition of Cosmopolitan and one can find the monthly installment of tried and proven pick-up tips or captions telling women the essential personality traits they need to possess to be like those golden girls who transcend ordinary looks...
...minority on this—which would be a nice change—but it should be clear to most of humanity that men’s magazines are unquestionably superior to women’s magazines. A brief comparison of GQ, Esquire and Maxim to Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Mademoiselle and Marie Claire should eliminate any doubt...