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...studios and pulled from cable. A Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins was spiked for this season. Even advertisers yanked spots--including a Geico insurance ad with a piggy bank falling from the sky--and began questioning whether the irreverent tone of recent ads can survive darker times...
...irony (yes, irony) of pop culture's crisis is that critics have spent many Britneyed, Rush Houred and Spy TVed years bemoaning a shallow culture suited to trivial times. Our war culture, if it comes to that, may well go both darker and lighter at the same time in response to today's troubles. It may even, in some perverse way, improve. But could anyone be blamed for counting the days until we can be so unfortunate as to live in shallow, trivial times again...
...earlier tracks, and in its place is a more tortured soul: Raw, brooding and foreboding. Branch uses her lower register to convey a wrenching sense of loss ,and when ascending into her upper register, she conjures the sound of Björk in her melancholy, perhaps the harbinger of darker releases forthcoming...
...also planning to go down to the beach with his brother, Victor, later in the day. As the rebels hiding in the hills and stalking the streets continued to fire shots, Edgar stayed with his family inside their house and his thoughts took on a darker dimension. He recalled the many stories he had heard about what the rebels had done in the countryside to innocent civilians, including “murder, rape and mutilation.” With the violence right outside his door, Thoma became convinced that “it was the end?...
Many of the panelists did not see so much the comparison to Pearl Harbor as the internment of Japanese-Americans. They worry that a war with countries in the Middle East may prompt the scaling back of individual liberties specifically for Americans of Islamic faith or with darker skin. I hope that the United States learns from its mistakes with the Japanese-Americans, and that were able to overcomethe misunderstanding of other cultures, says Rita...