Word: malle
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Angeles police department to launch a probe into the increasingly aggressive tactics paparazzi employ to catch celebs in such newsworthy acts as picking up dry cleaning. Freeway shootings and gang violence are important too, but someone's got to protect a starlet's right to park at the mall...
...late 1980s, mainly in the restaurant and retail businesses. There's even a trade group, the Mystery Shoppers Providers Association (MSPA), representing about 1 million secret shoppers and 150 member companies with names like Guest Check and Service Sleuth. The hospitality industry is new turf for these shopping-mall snoops, and increasingly, secret shoppers like Pokodner have become secret travelers, checking up on the world's vacation spots...
...were in the windowless basement of an apartment tower on the Upper East Side, the mango-sherbet walls, brightly colored play equipment and fuzzy purple apes and orange- pink-and-green spiders suspended from the ceiling could just as easily be in any small town or suburban strip mall...
...agency, OhmyNews gets up to 70% of its copy from some 38,000 "citizen reporters" like Chang-basically anyone with a story and a laptop to write it on. Editors vet the articles, rejecting nearly one-third. Launched in 2000, it has snowballed into a kind of raucous online mall for Korea's wired younger generation-a place to get news, absorb the buzz or just hang out. It is also giving young Koreans a political voice, upending the conservative traditional media models of their parents' generation...
...film revels in its sadistic streak, with many murders and a snatch of testicular electroshock torture, all played for laughs - smirks, anyway. More than once, the Downey narrator says, "I apologize, that was a terrible scene." Apologies are not enough. I demand reparation. A memorial on the Washington Mall, in testament to the wasted hours and coarsened sensibilities suffered by audiences who have sat through movies like this, might be a start...