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...were already saturated in a visual culture—a culture that enticed consumption on every street corner and was epitomized, interestingly enough, by the urban department store window. The department store window, as we know it today, was a modern innovation. While the makeshift window displays before the mid-1880s consisted of products casually strewn on top of boxes and crates, the department store windows of the 1920s experimented with novel techniques of color, glass, and light to amplify the allure of a product, ultimately trying to increase shoppers’ superfluous desires. Not only was this the first...
...weld them together into weapons and suits of armor. How much cooler is that idea than recycling, or even—dare I say it—commingled recycling? This seems to be the gist of “Prehistoric Dog,” at least until around the mid-way point, when the guys in Red Fang suit up to do battle with their nemeses, a group of non-beer-drinking, role-playing geeks (who seem to be involved in a real life version of Dungeons and Dragons, or something equally cool). At this point, our aluminum-clad heroes...
...wild-eyed at a rally that same-sex marriage was inevitable "whether you like it or not." The announcer then said darkly, "It's no longer about tolerance. Acceptance of gay marriage is now mandatory." Many fence sitters were turned off by Newsom's arrogance; blogger Andrew Sullivan attributed mid-October polls against the gay side to the "Newsom effect...
...Still, as of mid-September, McCain, with Palin at his side, had closed the gender gap, ignited his base, delighted Rush Limbaugh and seemed to be having fun for the first time in ages. He hammered the point that he was the only one who had been tested in a crisis. It was working great - until he was tested in a crisis. The assumption all year was that if the Furies delivered turmoil to the doorstep of this election, the country would retreat to the safe choice and not risk a rookie. It was Obama's triumph that the financial...
...Obama were twice as likely to say they had grown more favorable, not less; those who now saw McCain differently were three times as likely to say their view had worsened than had improved. And that was after the markets had shed a couple of trillion dollars. By mid-October, only 1 in 3 voters thought McCain would bring the country a real change in direction. He never got close again...