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...person's affection. Nancy Reagan almost single-handedly made red the new black. And any forecaster will tell you that one of the boldest moves in color trending came from the 1998 introduction of the Apple iMac, which brought juicy hues like grape and lime into the mainstream. That may also have been the first recent appearance of aqua...
...Xerox PARC had become point-and-click fans, using state-of-the-art Alto computers. But beyond that little world, few people were aware of the device until Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple Macintosh in 1984. It took Microsoft's Windows 95 to take the mouse mainstream--some 30 years after its invention...
...answer is, naturally, sex. Hollywood has a long, troublesome history of representing homosexuality as an all-encompassing identity. If you’re a gay character in a television show or a mainstream film, the only thing you’re allowed to discuss on screen in direct relation to your identity is the fact that you have a penchant for naughtiness with those of your own gender. In other words, Hollywood saps queers of any notion of a fluidity of identity—they must be gay every single second. Every motivation or action by a queer character must...
...sound. From 1996’s pop-drenched Being There to the sleepy front-porch rock of 1999’s Summerteeth, Wilco has expanded their musical diversity, culminating in their masterwork, 2002’s noise-driven Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which launched their recent brush with mainstream popularity...
...politically correct sense. It is a reactionary industry, and besides a brief stint in the early ’70s (which was economically motivated), it has never been politically progressive beyond the most agreeable of causes. Some may think that having such an obvious allegory like Lenny in a mainstream children’s film is a step forward. But it’s really nothing new. A real step forward would be directly showing kids that queers aren’t all sex-crazed, club-kid heathens. At the moment, however, that’s about as likely...