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...town's powerful directors, ridiculing scripts (wait till you hear about Hottentot Venus) and dishing just as much about herself--a girl born in Britain, with a plummy British accent and skin the color of caffe latte. Taking tea with Thandie (pronounced Tan-dee) turns out to be a jolt of caffeine straight to the system. Come prepared for opinions slathered with irony, not scones with cream...
...impulse toward social equality has not disappeared. Those who may have been tempted to believe it has disappeared in our Everyman-is-a-stockholder age received a jolt at the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization late last year, and at the World Bank-IMF meetings in Washington in April. The left may have gone into momentary hibernation after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but it never disappeared, and it is now re-energized by an enemy called globalization...
...effect of the swing boom and subsequent Latin craze caused the popularity of dancing with a partner to skyrocket. It not only became clear that Harvard would be competitive for years to come, but that there would continue to be a high level of competition. Prior to the sudden jolt in popularity, other schools had seen their dance programs shrink over the previous five years...
Primal Scream have returned to show America what rock is all about. To the enervated nerves of modern rock, _Exterminator_ is a jolt of cold water. This is neither the bombast of the Smashing Pumpkins nor the manufactured sheen of No Doubt. _Exterminator_ is an attempt to recapture the glory of 1977, when punk seemed like it just might win. While straight-ahead punk does appear here (the glorious opening suite of "Kill All Hippies," "Accelerator" and "Exterminator"), more important is the group's appropriation of righteous anger. Leftist rage permeates the album, unifying techno ("Swastika Eyes"), hip-hop ("Pills...
Forget the crown. Dress down a little. In this day and age, that's what you might expect of a monarch like Jordan's Abdullah II. But every few weeks, the 38-year-old ruler of the Hashemite Kingdom gives his wife Queen Rania a jolt by dressing up, carefully adjusting his disguise in the mirror, before heading to work in the morning. Instead of a business suit or perhaps his military uniform, he's wearing jeans, an old army jacket and--get this--an Afro wig, a bushy brown beard and some makeup to darken his eyebrows. To ensure...