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...this hub of a glorious, steam-driven empire, the average life expectancy of the city's poorest was only 16, and the cellars of even the better off were often full of excrement. Still, the muck signaled a business opportunity to the 100,000 or so toshers (copper salvagers), mudlarks and bone-pickers who crammed the city's margins, scavenging its corpses or sifting through its effluvia on the banks of the Thames. The air in parts of the capital was so appalling that when, in 1854, cholera struck on Broad Street in the Soho district and quickly developed into...
Welcome to the Information Age. In this glorious era, you’re guaranteed up-to-the-minute coverage of the latest election results, daily developments in Iraq, and the fact that at 8:43 p.m, things got complicated between Reese and Ryan (insert any broken-heart icon here...
...childhood friend Ben Rosenberg filmed a brief clip promising that “to keep the A’s in Oakland, Ben and I are prepared to do anything. Even...ghost ride my Volvo.” The solemn declaration is followed by 75 seconds of glorious ghostin’ to Mistah F.A.B.’s anthem. Since posting the clip, Houghteling has received avowals of love from underage girls. People have called him “fat” and “really white.” But Houghteling isn’t the only person...
...that could be told-are being told, in shorthand, at the edges of the frame. The murmur of overlapping blarney isn't a carpet of sound; rather, it's swatches, hundreds of gorgeous samples to choose from. This blend of image and voice, meticulously designed, may seem like a glorious mess. But that is Altman's way of upending the hierarchy Hollywood lives by: star over extra, story over atmosphere, emotion over all. This is movie democracy; you the viewer vote with your eyes and ears. Keep them open, there'll be a quiz before the fade...
Over the past two weeks, however, huge audiences across the country have filled movie theaters to laugh off their worries about this seeming “clash of civilizations” by going to see the new movie “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Starring Sacha Baron Cohen and directed by Larry Charles, best known for his work as a writer on “Seinfeld,” “Borat” resonates so much with audiences because of the West’s unease...