Word: planetful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three-year-old company has been expanding at a Planet Hollywood-like pace. This week Mills opens a $188 million mall in Tempe, Ariz., its seventh location, and just last month it completed a new mall in Dallas. Siegel has unveiled plans for a huge new project at the site of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn., along with new malls near Boston and Honolulu. And the concept has been catchy: rival Glimcher Realty Trust recently opened a Mills-like Great Mall of the Great Plains near Kansas City, Kans...
...afternoon last fall, I happened upon Erykah Badu's debut video "On and On." Coming on late in Black Entertainment Television's "Planet Groove"--after an hour and half of rejects from the Mary J. Blige school of intonation and generic girl groups whose lyrics made the Spice Girls seem like Joni Mitchell--"On & On" was unlike anything I had seen or heard in awhile. A pastel-infused riff inspired by The Color Purple, I fell in love with the song's sweet sass, thoughtful hip-hop jazz-poetry. In the year of 'Lil Kim, Erykah was a refreshing surprise...
...satisfying to his eco-apocalyptic politics. After all, if El Nino is the cause of a biblical plague of calamitous weather, and if global warming is the cause of El Nino, then you have a most beautiful link: human sin--burning carbon and, more generally, prideful exploitation of the planet for man's pleasure and greater glory--makes hail and floods and fire and brimstone fall upon us from heaven. Angry skies are no mere Act of God; they are provoked by man. It is a theology the Aztecs and the Hittites would have recognized at once...
...House, has been overtaken and outdated by contemporary events. "That was the era of Linus Pauling and vitamin C and the common cold," says Marion Nestle, chairman of the department of nutrition at New York University and a Joy contributor. "Frances Moore Lappe's book Diet for a Small Planet had just come out, emphasizing the importance of balanced protein. So the nutrition content of the book in 1975 really emphasized protein, beyond all other nutritional information. Today, issues of calories and fat and caloric balance and exercise and moderation are much more important...
...codes, PIN codes, tracking numbers and confirmation codes: we live in a sea of irrational numbers. The artist formerly known as Prince now goes by a cryptic glyph, and the most famous shoe company on the planet advertises itself with a swoosh. And even as we pride ourselves on our exfoliating identities, our names seem ever more beside the point. The handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese, for example, was perhaps most significant as the disappearance of a culture of zany hybrids--Sir Run Run Shaw, Philemon Choi and Freedom Leung--into one where there are 4,000 Zheng...