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...fans search the past, they look to venerate artists who were once pariahs. The movies of Bettie Page, the actress-model who died Thursday, Dec. 11, at 85 in Los Angeles after a heart attack, couldn't be more infra dig: they were sold under the counter, mailed in plain brown wrappers. Yet decades later she was elevated to the status of pulp goddess. The beatification process began in 1980, when artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly gave her full-figured life in the 1991 movie version, and the cult...
Still, the inventory (here, in plain text) breaks out the 10 "top overall" paid and free apps, and, luckily, a number of the developers behind them were happy to talk about their apparent success and the business wisdom they picked up in Year One of the iPhone App. (See the Top 11 iPhone applications...
...series. “I liked tequila,” Liwei Liu, a Chinese student at the Kennedy School of Government said, adding that it is popular in China. One audience member asked about the marketing of Tequila. Suros stressed that it tends to be as “plain as possible.” “Simple bottles, modern, minimalist,” Suros said. “We believe what’s important is inside the bottle, not outside...
...hour wage cut in return for new investment at a Mitsubishi plant in Normal, Ill. said he wasn't sure the modifications to the Big Three contract should include major wage cuts. "Mitsubishi represents less than 1% of the U.S. market," he said. Gettelfinger, however, made it plain that the situation was dire. "Even if all of our members were willing to work for nothing, it wouldn't help the automakers out of the situation they are in," Gettelfinger told reporters after a union meeting in Detroit, also noting that the union already made major concessions...
...question of "is making yoga allowed?" does appears on Muslim web sites, and I've found myself wondering just who the doubting yogis might have been in all my many classes. The quiet types taking up the back row, who wear deliberately plain workout clothes? The chatty, devout housewives who got bored during the breathing exercises? That the forums' experts and mediators rule so contradictorily - some rule haram, while many more judge yoga harmless - suggests there is no fixed Islamic position on yoga, just as there is no fixed type of yoga itself. The place of yoga in the lives...