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With their overly flamboyant evening dresses, the clothing lines of former model and fashion designer Eletra Casadei marked the excess of the 1980s. Some of the clothes even appeared on two of the decade's most popular TV shows, The Golden Girls and Dynasty. In the '90s, however, Casadei--along with others in the industry--took a different tack. She began re-creating dresses worn by celebrities at awards shows and selling them at marked-down prices, starting a furor in the high-end fashion world over copyright law. Still, her work continued to gain a following for its affordability...
...hard to tell where Tina Fey ends and Sarah Palin begins. Even before Fey lampooned Palin on Saturday Night Live--the updo, the wink, the syntax--people noted the resemblance. And for a politician new to the national stage, being likened to the intelligent, witty, popular Fey was not exactly a bad thing...
...decade and change later, Blur has broken up. But Albarn stayed on his artistic trajectory and has assumed the throne, vacant since David Bowie's prime, of popular music's avant-gardist in chief. In the past few years, he's launched a cartoon hip-hop band (Gorillaz), an Afro-pop album (Mali Music) and a side project with a member of the Clash. All were slightly ridiculous (hip-hop, world music, supergroup--the hubristic rock star's triple crown) but well received, yet none can quite prepare you for Albarn's latest: Journey to the West, a "circus opera...
...ways of guarding ourselves against disappointment. Frankly, I was perfectly fine with the idea of never seeing a black President in my lifetime. When Obama entered the race, any expectations we had were negative. We started to see the light in Iowa, but even as his support became a popular movement, there was always a kind of disbelief in the idea that America would really vote for a black man. We'd like to be wrong, but we think we're right. There is no sense in the black community of the kind of entitlement to the presidency felt...
...capture the entire sense of a film in less than a minute. Most films centered on an object or a short series of images. People, when featured, were usually treated as additional objects. Very few of the films featured dialogue, although those that did were memorable. One example popular with the audience was Matthew Thompson’s “Jell-O,” in which a husband reveals to his wife that he is gay; she responds that she is a werewolf. Even with the large number of films from varied backgrounds, many of them relied...