Word: pops
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...early aughts housing boom, as opposed to the late-'90s NASDAQ bubble) that has had to adjust to tough times, in this case by offering escapism that turns head-on into the very thing people want to escape from. (Just as, after 9/11, terrorism became all the rage in pop culture...
...PUNK-POP PIONEERS: Without even an album to promote, the Police first toured the U.S. in the summer of '78. Fans approved, and when the album Outlandos d'Amour came out, it rose to No. 23 on U.S. charts. This year's reunion marks the band's 30th anniversary...
...million a pop, these simulators don't come cheap. Approved by the FAA (and sometimes also by the Joint Aviation Authorities in Europe), each simulator has digitized versions of the 85 largest airports in the world, runs on the equivalent processing power of 500 Xboxes and does everything the same model aircraft would do. Being able to safely navigate through low visibility and a ceiling of 800 ft. or to land smoothly after a fire in the left wing's engine prepares pilots for their first experience piloting an actual aircraft, which could be loaded with passengers...
There's nothing new about such tales of hardship and pop-culture dreaming, of course (Saf's older sister swoons to Hopelessly Devoted to You from Grease). But in Manzoor's telling, every sigh comes with a different inflection. This is a boy who kisses the Koran before wishing for a ZX Spectrum computer, and was so innocent in adolescence that he thought a "blue movie" was one that made you cry. When he and his best friend, a Sikh, head off to their first Springsteen concert, they go armed with the vegetable samosas and chapatis their mothers have cooked...
...John was the intellectual, Paul was the suave, good-looking one, George was the mystical one, Ringo was the whimsical one, just as the Beatles had these distinct personalities as human beings, they do as artists. John was an illustrator, Paul is an abstract expressionist, Ringo is a pop artist, and George had the good sense to know he wasn’t an artist,” he said, laughing...