Word: pops
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...retail trade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which put the nation's unemployment rate at 6.1%. Shutoffs of electricity and gas are rising as families struggle to pay bills with the onset of winter weather across much of the country. And tent cities are beginning to pop up in places like Reno, Nev., and Seattle for the first time in decades...
...students dressed in skimpy clubwear raved in one corner of Lowell Dance Studio on Friday evening. Gyrating in front of the studio’s mirrored wall, the dancers were filming the club scene of a music video for the song “Predator,” a pop sensation by Peter C. Shields, Jr. ’09. For Shields, known as “Petros” in the Greek music world, this was his third music video and the second-ever to exclusively feature Harvard students. (He recruited the dancers, all friends, by e-mail...
...traditional art schools and the dictates of the state—have chosen to use their national identity, more than anything, as a selling point. To them, Yue Minjun’s smiling faces appear more Chinese-looking than is accurate; similarly, Wang Guangyi’s political pop paintings are seen as insincere and overly topical. Many Western critics, along with other Chinese artists, are bothered by the success of those who make intentional and overtly Chinese art. Some have gone so far as to characterize much of this work as a sort of soft minstrel...
...born in an English-speaking country is that one cannot naturally create visual art using the ‘cultura franca’ of the day. China may have been blocked off during the Beatles, not have been there for New Realism, and then prevented from being part of Pop Art, but that doesn’t mean that they cannot relate to us without essentializing themselves, or conversely, that we cannot understand them outside of those essentializations...
...There is no question that Perry’s pop confection “I Kissed a Girl” was the song of the summer—love it or hate it (and many do), the Billboard Hot 100 has been tasting cherry Chapstick for 20 weeks and counting. Even New York Magazine’s imperious “Vulture” blog had to admit the song’s success, but not without threatening to move to Canada...