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...porno chic died long before that. If Throat in 1972 stoked the hope that hard-core might fruitfully intersect with mainstream, Jaws in 1975 ended that dream, and a few others. The Spielberg film's success, and that of Star Wars two years later, proved that the big-bucks audience comprised kids and teens, not adults, and it was the young who had to be pandered to. Adult films were largely marginalized, the hard-core back to the old grind houses (and later to video), the Hollywood ones to art houses and Oscar season. It's been that...
...hype has dimmed? Just as it is in music and fashion, in the realm of art, it's a decade that remains a sore spot. It introduced artists whose work has enduring fascination. Cindy Sherman's photographs of herself in the guise of indistinct movie heroines, Jenny Holzer's dream jottings on electronic ticker-tape signs, Elizabeth Murray's shaped canvases--all that arrived in the '80s. So did inflated reputations and a superheated art market that eventually crashed, taking some of the biggest names down with it. All the same, despite its frequent lapses into coarseness, triviality and crass...
...would have blocked his son's plans to leave the country and informed the police to keep an eye on him. Mansour says he would not be surprised if Ra'ed showed up at the door someday, as if his disappearance were some mistake or just a bad dream. But like so many others, the Bannas may never know exactly how they lost Ra'ed to the jihad. "The calls stopped," says Ahmed. "Ra'ed doesn't phone us anymore." --With reporting by Christopher Allbritton/Baghdad and Saad Hattar/Amman
Laos' Quaintly-titled Vice Minister for Industry and Handicrafts sits in his office in Vientiane and allows himself to dream. From his desk, Nam Viyaketh points to a map of the country pinned on the far wall. It's dotted with dozens of red spots, each a potential site for a hydroelectric dam. Within 30 years, says Nam, Laos could have a generation capaciy of 12,000 MW of electricity (it currently has a production capacity of 700 MW) and exporting it to energy-hungry neighbors like Thailand and China, generating billions of dollars in revenue. "We can be like...
...Soviet-trained engineer, his is the logical grand plan for a landlocked country blessed with mountains, rivers?and little else. "We don't want to be such a poor country anymore," Nam says. "We want to change." This week, the World Bank will take a step to turn that dream into a concrete reality. The Bank's executive board of directors will meet in Washington, D.C. on Thursday and is expected to endorse a controversial $1.25 billion hydroelectric dam that even developers admit will have major social and environmental impact. Yet the dam could earn the country $2 billion...