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...Showgirls, hailed by critics as one of the greatest films of the 90s, if not all time. A staggering work of emotional profundity with the occasional stripper-on-stripper dance-off, Showgirls would no doubt receive an A rating according to the Ebert system. But certain faceless detractors might argue that the film does not exhibit an ounce of artistic merit and therefore deserves an NC-17. Such responsibility would only be giving the Rating Board another system of control...
Here to remedy that is Stanley Bing, whose roundly entertaining and surprisingly touching novel, You Look Nice Today (Bloomsbury; 291 pages), is set almost entirely in the carpeted corridors of a large, faceless multinational conglomerate. Bing (the name is a pseudonym) writes a column for FORTUNE magazine (published by Time Inc., as is TIME), but he also has a day job as an executive at a major corporation. Thus he knows whereof he writes...
Christian rock newcomers Switchfoot play music in the vein of Vertical Herizon, Jars of Clay and Nine Days. Already an enormous hit among the television executives over at Warner Brothers, Switchfoot is currently trying to expose an unsuspecting national audience to their essentially faceless brand of rock. The fantastic opening band, however, Chicago’s Sleeping at Last, might make this show worth attending. The Smashing Pumpkins-influenced local favorite has recently been signed to Interscope Records, and their new album Ghosts was released nationwide this Tuesday. 7 p.m. $12; All ages. Axis, 13 Lansdowne...
Most readers have probably never heard of González Leiva. Indeed, the dissidents who languish in Castro’s jails typically remain nameless and faceless to the American public, despite being 90 miles from our shores. For every Armando Valladares—the Cuban poet who was held for 22 harrowing years before an international campaign helped gained his release in 1982—there are thousands of other brave souls whose pleas were never answered. Human-rights groups estimate that there are currently more than 300 “prisoners of conscience” in Cuba...
...exactly the same must-have purse or belt? Or the platinum-haired, deeply tanned kogyaru look that painted Tokyo teens like a badly conceived Hawaiian Tropic advertisement? But Japan today boasts a diversity of expression unmatched anywhere in Asia. Years of recession have galvanized a generation of faceless students, salarymen and office ladies to shed the uniforms they associate with the failure of the bubble years and probe unexplored fashion territory. "We've reached a point in Japanese society where people don't necessarily look up high for their fashion inspiration," says Takizawa. "In fact, even many older people have...