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...1980s, however, black is hip. Not since the glossy lacquer fixtures of art deco and Ford's utilitarian Model T has the color of doom been so specifically fashionable or so ubiquitous. In big cities, there are upscale stores that sell virtually nothing but black hardware and electronics, black furniture, luggage and clothing. One such place in New York City is called Black Market, a punky East Village store just down the block from a still punkier black leather boutique called Fetisch...
...refrigerator filled with nothing but artichokes, or a brother urinating on his sister's chart for a 4-H science project. Yet they must also preserve enough dignity to bring off sustained poetic speeches, including a climactic account of a midair battle between an eagle and a cat who doom each other to a fatal fall. The showiest part is the father (Eddie Jones), a brutal alcoholic who undergoes an overnight conversion, too late, into a sober and responsible man. His place as the family menace is then taken over by the son (Bradley Whitford), a sensible if none...
...growing at about 9.5% a year and Shanghai is the epicenter of the boom, yet apartments there still cost far less than in Hong Kong, Tokyo or New York. That gap will close, says Marc Faber, an emerging-markets expert who writes a newsletter called the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report. "Eventually," he predicts, "Shanghai property prices will be higher than prices in New York...
...circle of tender lovers. A mound of human flesh, limbs dangling askew. A metaphor that combines fertility and civility. An image of doom and despair. It is a tribute to Paul Taylor's burgeoning imagination that in two new pieces premiered at Manhattan's City Center Theater, he has choreographed a pair of utterly different works, not so much contrasting as reflecting separate meditations on the human condition...
Just 10 years after Doom, the original first-person shooter, was released, there is very little left of its allure. This unmasks the fact that there was very little to its allure in the first place. Today Doom 3 is on the cutting edge of technical achievement, but it too will fade from our memories and leave nothing behind. If the value of video games continues to reside solely in their increasing graphical realism and not in their increasing conceptual sophistication, then we all may be wandering around in binary dungeons for the rest of our lives...