Word: magnolia
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...demons and gods. Today, the complex world that travel, communications and other technologies have created can likewise seem as if moved by mystic forces. If Lost is a jungle of quasi-shamanistic kismet, it resonates because our world appears that way too. In Babel, Heroes and their forebears--from Magnolia to the novels of Thomas Pynchon--even if the connections may be contrived, they feel authentic. That guy in the next car on the freeway could change my life someday! If I save the cheerleader, I can save the world...
Patient zero was Magnolia, a tiny, retro bakery in New York City's West Village, which, in 1996, had some extra batter and made a dozen cupcakes. Soon Magnolia had to institute a limit on cupcakes per customer. Then Sarah Jessica Parker, who lived nearby, put her local phenomenon on Sex and the City, leading tour buses to stop there. At the admittedly delicious Sprinkles in Los Angeles, which Oprah declared her favorite cupcake after getting a box from Barbra Streisand, the line on weekends is more than half an hour long. Which, yes, is longer than it takes...
...jokes can be broad (e.g., the airline starts an offshoot called Jack; if you can't guess where the dirty puns go from there, you don't watch much Fox). But Harrison shows Topher Gracean charm as a guy stuck between adolescence and adulthood, and Philip Baker Hall (Magnolia) steals every scene as his gruff, insensitive boss. If the writing can rise to their performances, The Loop could take flight...
...into prisons." This is one of the nicer ones. Opened in June 2004 with a capacity of 450, Bronzefield was designed specifically for women. That means brightly-painted walls, Matisse prints hanging around the place and a row of potted trees in the main hall. But no amount of magnolia yellow can cover the stale smoke in the air, or the hollow echo as voices bounce off concrete bricks, or the cold clunk of heavy keys in steel doors. "You only see us laughing and playing around, but this is an awful place," says Bronwen, 34, in on pickpocketing charges...
...moment came in October of 1960, when Martin Luther King led a student sit in of Atlanta's segregated snack bars and restaurants. He was arrested at the Magnolia Room restaurant, along with more than 50 other people. But while they were all released on bail, Dr. King was held on a technicality - a traffic violation, no less - and sentenced to hard time at the State penitentiary in Reidsville...