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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...links between shopping and boredom, shopping and politics (the talk-show host acquires a political following). An incipient fascism sweeps the English motorways from one deracinated mall-town to another. If Kingdom Come has a flaw, it's dialogue that sounds like a lecture on social theory. To liven things up, Ballard marches his shoppers to the brink of armed apocalypse, and he displays an attention to detail that can lull you into suspending disbelief. Especially if you have traveled the new English landscape of soccer thugs, superstores and paved-over villages where, as Pearson says of Brooklands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Dark Material | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

Harvard isn’t usually synonymous with rockin’ out—but the College is hoping a rock musician will help liven up its social scene next academic year...

Author: By Doris A. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rocker Drake To Be New Fun Czar | 4/14/2006 | See Source »

...effort to liven up the shopping experience, Sephora borrowed from music stores the idea of "Hits" displays to show off top-selling fragrances and "New" displays to highlight launches. Although its parent company, French luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH, also owns several beauty brands, competitors say Sephora is fair about who makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sales-Floor Secrets | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...show.”In an episode where “tail” puns—“Our tale is almost done”—served as a staple diversionary device, a little bit of inter-group tension might have served to liven things up a bit. But Martinez may soon have other opportunities to duke it out on the small screen.Martinez has been contacted by “Beauty and the Geek,” a WB reality series in which “nerdy” guys are paired up with beautiful women...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King of the Animal Planet | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...Cheung) is making a blockbuster musical in Shanghai, starring his longtime lover Sun Na (Zhou) and a hot Hong Kong idol, Lin Jian-dong (Kaneshiro). Nie's musical is set in a Chinese circus, which allows Chan to use acrobats, contortionists, fire-breathers, trapeze artists, clowns and dwarves to liven up the dance numbers. But the musical inside the movie is just a shadow play for the complex drama behind the scenes. Sun and Lin were lovers 10 years before. Lin has grown obsessed with her over the years; Sun, who left him to find a career as an actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolute Love | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

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