Word: culturese
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There's no lack of nature shows in the multichannel universe, but few get at the big picture like these natural opuses. The four series--set in North, Central and South America and the Antarctic--show how the geography, animals and humans of a region have affected one another. (The...
Ancient Chinese Secrets Re "Breaking Up is Easy to Do" [Nov. 6], on the rising divorce rates in urban China: Divorce is not an exotic Western idea in China. The ancient Chinese lords discarded their wives and concubines to separate chambers when they fell out of grace. It was their...
time's cover headline referring to President George W. Bush as "The Lone Ranger" [Nov. 6] was like calling Donald Rumsfeld Mahatma Gandhi. Don't you know your pop-culture history? The Lone Ranger was a gallant man who helped people in distress. He then rode away, not waiting for...
Borat, the movie’s protagonist, hails from Kazakhstan, a nation which we are told has some of the cleanest prostitutes in central Asia. Cohen himself looks vaguely Muslim (Cohen is actually half-Israeli and half-Welsh) and his character Borat is incredibly out of sync with Western mores...
Baron Cohen criticizes all the things Borat pretends to admire and uses Borat's faked attitudes and stories to reveal the hidden resentments within the people he encounters. As a Jew, Baron Cohen carries Borat's anti-Semitism to the extreme, thus making a laughingstock of it while also revealing...