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...that most of those will be addressed to the adults of the household. That's a great and good thing. There's more to it than catching the tail of a growing cultural phenomenon - I'm convinced that J.K. Rowling's tales of childhood and wizardry could change your life...
...even though the bodyguards are quickly cranking up the windows. In the backseat, Fox's sleek and bronzed daughter, Ana Cristina, 20, looks scared that the windows might burst under the hammering from Fox's aficionados. "My father," she says with as much worry as pride, "is a phenomenon." By now, Fox is busy flashing the V sign to passing cars, while at the same time combing confetti out of his brown hair and swigging orange Gatorade. Something has to give, and it's the Gatorade, which Fox sloshes all over his lap. He resigns himself to the wet mess...
...indeed a phenomenon. A former Coca-Cola executive, he has brought to Mexican politics a new, effervescent tonic--change. Everywhere Fox travels, he's greeted with the same shrieking enthusiasm, the same glowing faces and the same optimism. He is a masterly campaigner. Can he win? One of the benefits of the 71-year reign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) is that it controls the levers of Mexico's political machine, which makes Fox something of an outside chance. But even if he doesn't beat out the P.R.I.'s candidate--the decidedly less macho Francisco Labastida Ochoa--this...
...Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Neal Gabler argued that celebrity culture had created a universal lust for the camera, and he sees these series as a case in point. "Reality has become the greatest entertainment of all," he says. "It's symptomatic of a larger phenomenon that all of life is entertainment." It's a grand argument, appealing to our now conditioned distrust of the fame machine. But it's an easy one to take too far. In fact, most of us don't want to, in Gabler's words, "get to the other side of the glass...
...with the CDs already in their collections--will be available anywhere there's an Internet connection. Robertson believes the mainstream will choose this limited-pay model over legally dubious networks like Napster and Freenet. Thus far the rise of MP3s "has been painted as a college-kids-gone-crazy phenomenon," he says. "In fact, it cuts across all walks of life...