Word: malling
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...difference between parties is clearest when we look at the online apparel stores visited by the two groups. Democratic segments reflect an urban bent in visits to Baby Phat, Dr. Jays and luxury brand Gucci, while the Republican segment's sites mirror an upscale suburban mall with Ann Taylor, Abercrombie for Kids and J Crew...
...portrayal of today’s consumerist society. In a narrative closely resembling historical essay, the story details the evolution of a large, transparent, protective dome, first over wealthy residences, then over middle-class suburbia, and finally over the entire country—a haunting extension of the shopping mall. “The Other Town” offers a wry commentary on the popularity of reality TV in today’s America. Residents of a small town regularly visit another that is uninhabited, identical to their own, whose appearance is updated by “replicators?...
...former soldier, governor and Director of Homeland Security, with the winner chosen by a blue-ribbon commission of all-purpose elders. The Danforth-Mitchell commission, perhaps, or O'Connor-Albright. But it has never worked that way, which is why Lincoln's statue occupies a marble temple on the Mall in Washington, while his far more experienced rival William Seward has a little seat on a pedestal in New York City. "Experience never exists in isolation; it is always a factor that coexists with temperament, training, background, spiritual outlook and a host of other factors," says presidential historian Richard Norton...
...former President. "We know him from playing his saxophone on Arsenio. He is the first rock star President of this country." Certainly Clinton is greeted like a rock star by the mostly student crowd as he moves down the ramp from Main Hall to a podium on the mall in the heart of the campus. Flash bulbs go off, camera phones are lifted high and U2 blasts over the speakers...
...Established in 201 B.C. by Liu Bang, the first Han Emperor, this shopper's paradise was surfeited with stalls hawking everything from silk to cheap tableware. At a whopping 5.4 million sq. ft. (500,000 sq m), it covered more space, as Barbieri-Low points out, than the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest in the U.S. today. From a general reader's perspective, it's this sort of taut link between a remote buried past and the present that keeps Barbieri-Low's professorial yet approachable history from floundering in arcane detail. (You may want to skim...