Word: modeling
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Such an assertion is not only false in the face of this nation's dubious past, but simplistically and arrogantly assumes that America serves as an ideal model of righteousness for other, relatively flawed nations...
Christian J. Westra '01 currently lives in Dunster House with Jon P. Williams '01, a Crimson editors, who is one of his original four first-year roommates. He says he has kept in contact with Sultan S. Yassin '00 mainly through common extracurricular activities such as Model United Nations...
...into the novel. Victor, for a $300,000 fee, is sent by the mysterious F. Fred Palakon (whose name echoes G. Gordon Liddy's neatly enough to hint at the web of deceit to follow) to London to look for a former Camden College friend, Jamie Fields, now a model. Slowly, he gets entangled in a much larger plot, where models are really the terrorists, responsible for bombings of the Institute of Political Studies and other major buildings. Uncharacteristically for an Ellis protagonist, Victor is terrified by all this coldbloodedness. It's the perfect nexus of all that is newsworthy...
...vampires populate this particular Ellis work, but it's hard to believe that any warm blood flows in Glamorama's characters. Victor Ward, fashion's latest "It Boy of the moment," is the novel's memorable protagonist, an uberstereotype of the male model. "The better you look, the more you see," goes Victor's pithy saying, and he believes it. His lifestyle is the extreme of everything the current culture worships: he can't avoid thinking in brand names and image and speaks with lines from pop songs ("do you have the time to listen to me whine?"). Even honesty...
...Penfield Jackson, the colorful arbiter presiding over the jury-free Microsoft antitrust trial, yesterday interrupted Microsoft's cross-examination of the last government witness to ponder outside comments from America Online's Steve Case. Could AOL's chief become the star witness in the biggest antitrust trial since the Model T? MORE...