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...almost Monty Pythonesque debates on both sides: Republican candidates appeared to be debating over how much they hate abortion; Democrats quibbled over who was more pro-choice and who got there first. Oh, for the days when a candidate could chant "It's the economy, stupid" as a mantra...
...song itself tries to assert her "woman in me" mantra and it's not too bad. But a girl wearing a leopard print coat and hood in the desert? What was she thinking? The video's plot's pretty simple: Shania looks hot (I mean literally--she's gotta be overheated in that animal skin), she rejects like five different hitchhikers for no apparent reason (including a white boy who looks uncomfortable in his sheik outfit), and she ends the video without a ride, lonely and overdressed in the desert. The lyrics of the song wax poetic about needing...
...antique hand-cranked Pathe camera. The narrator's chronicle of "strange things told" includes this pseudo-historical footage, and it, like the '70s-colored soundtrack, serves to heighten the sense of presence and periodicity in the film and to underscore the weight the past bears on the present. The mantra that "we may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us" certainly resonates with this idea, and we hear it muttered more than once...
...This entertainment industry push reflects the larger defection of the civil rights movement from the public to the private sector. In recent years, leaders such as Jesse Jackson have peppered industry leaders with the mantra that a minority focus makes good business sense - a sentiment repeated by NBC's Wright Wednesday. A big question now facing the TV industry is whether upstarts UPN and the WB network (owned by TIME.com parent Time Warner), which built their viewership largely on minority-oriented programming, will go the way of third political parties that become marginalized once their issues are picked...
...genius of eBay is its success in building a community--"maybe the most real community on the entire Web," says Whitman. There's no question people like hanging out in eBayland. The site gets more than 1.5 billion page visits a month. And at a time when the Internet mantra is "stickiness"--how long users stay on a website--eBay is cyberspace superglue. Each visitor to Amazon.com spends an average of 13 min. a month on the site. On eBay, each visitor's monthly average is about...