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...Beverly Hills realtor Constance Chestnut drives clients around in her EV1 because "it's hot and sexy." Hawthorne Savings Bank attracted $1.5 million in deposits from customers after it advertised its newly installed electric-car chargers. EV1 drivers have even founded a club and a Website. "This is no martyr mobile for environmentalists," says club vice president Marvin Rush. "This car outperforms most gas cars...
...week. Broken dreams make you a star. The contemptible non-groom was holed up in Tahiti, where the honeymoon was to have been. The louse did not get to the beach much, because a cyclone blew up in the Pacific. Nicole's image filled the electronic air--the dancing martyr, the New Woman...
Still, MTV didn't want to just martyr itself and show videos all day. What it did instead was learn how to make videos feel like programs, to hold viewers even when a bad song comes on. On 12 Angry Viewers, young people are asked to review videos on the merits of their visual style, although, despite repeated instructions, they can't seem to keep from talking about the music instead. On MTV Probe, kids are taped, cinema verite-style, expounding about what videos mean to their lives. In one 35-second segment, a guy explains to his friend...
...Martyr, anyone? The Netly News on the Kashpureff saga
...ends even more strongly than it begins, that's one more testament to the resilience of its creators. Their insistence on respect--as women, as artists and as romantic partners--is a welcome change from much of today's black music scene, dishearteningly crowded with all-cried-out martyr-masochists and generic balladeers. Brand New scales few new heights for the self-proclaimed Queens of Queens, but the album leaves no doubt that Salt 'N' Pepa are the real spice girls. Everyone else is a wannabe...