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...went something like this: Palm Pilot is for Gen X-ers; Motorola pager with colorful case and chain is for Gen Y-ers. Nirvana is for Gen X-ers; Cardigans is for Gen Y-ers, etc. In any case, I was happily skimming the columns, wondering what cliched label BusinessWeek would slap on me, when I realized that I was a cultural nonentity according to the magazine--just a bit of flotsam in this generational alphabet soup...
Then there's the shared group trauma: in 1995, after two smash records, TLC filed for bankruptcy. Some observers in the music industry viewed the move as a sly legal strategy for the group to negotiate a better contract with its record label, LaFace. But Watkins says the trio was genuinely broke. "We were broke like our lights were off," she says. "Broke like our phone was disconnected. Broke. It came as a shock to y'all. Not to us. We was the ones living it. So I knew the money I wasn't getting...
Whether or not we choose to label Mary Cassatt a "modern woman," we can certainly call her a skilled and innovative painter who produced a uniquely emotional oeuvre. Like other Impressionists, Cassatt strove to capture scenes of modern life. Yet while her male counterparts often focused on working people, cityscapes or natural panoramas, Cassatt turned her eye to the private lives of her subjects. Concentrating her view on women and children, she presented their daily activities with remarkable tenderness and grace...
...Prada, Xanex, Guess?, Dire Straits, Julian Schnabel, Moomba. Critics have graciously pardoned Bret Easton Ellis's unrelenting name-dropping, label-dropping and venue-dropping for the past 15 years. His writing is brilliant satire, they all have echoed...
...latest label was "young," affixed by Republicans coming out of the Senate Cineplex. It was the first successful talking point to emerge from the caucus in days: simple, factually unassailable and subliminally suggestive of the heart of the President's darkness. How could he have taken such advantage, been such a sexual predator...