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...echo of Schor's booming verdict gets gradually absorbed into A&F-emblazoned fabrics, bystanders resume their browsing/modeling, keeping one eyebrow raised at the tall, skinny, wildly gesticulating woman. White walls, enormous photographs of rippled, wrestling boys, and a deafening beat envelop Schor as she launches into her critique...
Lest you worry, Sharpton is an equal-opportunity agitator. The Freddy's protests were an eerie echo of protests Sharpton supported five years earlier of Korean grocery stores. Equally racially-charged protests urged an end to shopping "with people who do not look like us." Disaster was avoided when police discovered and safely removed 19 gasoline bombs on the roof of one of the Korean-owned stores...
...Currier's HoJo chic is a sad echo of a much higher class establishment, New York City's Four Seasons restaurant, which also tries to encapsulate natural beauty with the 1970s sleek urbanity. In trying to "contextualize" their dining halls, Eliot, Quincy and Mather integrate their natural environment into their dining environment by hinting at the presence of that other environment through windows. Currier forces diners to confront the otherness of the external world by centering the dining environment around a fabricated version of the natural world, a bizarre oasis (several artificial-looking plants and a fountain...
...interior of the dining hall is itself a schizophrenic attempt to address three different realms of the dining experience, separated by giant ribbed columns (that appropriately echo the faux-bamboo of the other separating screens. The central area surrounded by the colonnade is the "public" space, where long tables do not encourage "gathering around" for shared commensality, and the prominence of the salad bar (and the way it violently disrupts the unified space) proves that this space is for eating, not chatting. The colonnade separates this from the "private" space, which is filled with individual tables that are each self...
...show decided to take the part because she was so amazed at the audition). In a characteristic move of flygirl solidarity, the dancers all agree that they are each the others' greatest inspirations. The flygirls may not be Spice Girls, but the women who play them sure seem to echo the five pop tarts' girl power sentiments...