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...often, though, the project is lulling and mechanical. Lucas may want the series to extend to Indy 500, but this time the filmmakers are less like a crack racing team and more like a '50s pop group, the Platters or the Drifters, reconvened to sing their hits at a pbs oldies concert. They mime their classic choreography--and may cheat on the high notes--but it's a treat just to see them trying. That's the instant movie nostalgia of Crystal Skull. It's got the old airs and familiar faces and works up a commendable sweat. All that...
...between the two.)" By the mid-'50s, he was also in a romantic relationship with the artist Jasper Johns. Trading ideas at top speed, together they were a pivot point between the psychodramas of the Abstract Expressionists who came just before them and the cool ironies of the Pop artists who came after...
...innocently surfing the Web. Clicking on stuff. Sports scores, news stories. You know, normal things. Then it starts. A fusillade of electronic drums. A doinky synthesizer beat. A dude with a pompadour and a lot of sincerity. He's dancing--badly. He is 1980s pop star Rick Astley, and you have been RICKROLLED...
...into clicking on a benign-looking link that takes them to the video for Astley's hit Never Gonna Give You Up. By now millions of people have inadvertently watched the video, which came out in 1987, a more innocent time when people actually listened to generic soft-core pop on purpose--the song went...
...ready-trained “family protector” German Shepherds (from $85,000) and—most controversially—the giant “luxury” Ashera cat, a genetic blend of African and Asian wildcats with the domestic cat, which costs over $125,000 a pop. All of these engineered animals can be ordered online. Whatever happened to the magic of picking out a family pet at the animal shelter? Today, that idyllic episode has become obsolete; we can instead visit an electronic superstore and choose our pet’s precise genome...