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This mecca of gaudiness was founded by a man who spouts wisdom like, “If you go to a party, you should wear a tiara.” Paul Turnberg started this vintage jewelry store 40 years ago and is still behind the counter today, a cluster of rhinestones sparkling in his ear. Twentieth Century Ltd. may be unique in its glamorous genre. According to Turnberg, jewel-starved customers regularly come up from New York, where no such cavern of riches exists. It is not difficult to understand their devotion. Entering the store is like having magically fallen...
...adventures mostly of the existential kind. In one strip he moves to a country shack to get away from it all only to discover an even more determined isolationist living under the floorboards. Climbing down to "see how an anti-social person lives," he finds it packed with "counter-culture" material goods. A friend to the powerless by being powerless himself, TMCM worries about the environment, feels alone at parties, and just generally gets tense and anxious. Obsessed with all the drudgery that fills up his day he rushes to complete it all only to end up standing around...
Throughout the Cold War, the United States embraced the idea of nuclear deterrence and mutually assured destruction. Due to this counter intuitive logic, the U.S. and the USSR were able to survive decades of intense geopolitical competition without engulfing the world in a nuclear holocaust. Today, as then, the threat of nuclear retaliation may do much to prevent a world conflict...
...Journalists who insisted on probing his business empire got a taste of Thaksin's vaunted temper. While a candidate for Prime Minister, he bought a controlling interest in the country's only independent television station, ITV. Afterward, 23 staffers who had reported on his problems with the National Counter Corruption Commission were fired. When Thaksin was on trial for withholding information about his finances, he requested that reporters refrain from criticizing the government for six months, saying it would boost public spirits. Editors have charged that outlets that didn't comply found themselves deprived of advertising from Thaksin's Shin...
Ryou Jung Hye approaches a counter in a fashionable department store, focuses her digital camera and, with a silent click, captures the frilly purple top and the pearl-encrusted costume jewelry on display. Like any fashion designer, Ryou is looking for inspiration for her next collection. But you'll never see mannequins strutting her stuff down a runway. Ryou is head of marketing for popular Korean Internet portal www.freechal.com, and one of her jobs is to dream up virtual fashions and accessories for avatars, cartoon characters that stand in for a user online. When you use Freechal, you can outfit...