Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Viewers of the Democratic Convention can be forgiven for wondering why there wasn't a changing table on the podium or a little Gymboree just offstage. The poster child of the Democratic Convention in Chicago last week was the child, and families were valued above all else, their virtue synonymous with parenthood. The reason is elementary: the political world revolves around baby boomers and now the baby boomers' world revolves around their children...
...real success of the film, however, is in the splendid details--the stereotype-crushingly vivid characterizations, the brilliant satire of modernism that is Celeste's "art," the poster of Maria Callas that Ana snatches from her wall before dashing off to France, the similarities in the many and varied wedding scenes. Altogether, "Celestial Clockwork" is a film that precisely and elegantly constructs a paradise before our eyes...
...back to school in the fall. But almost anywhere they may have ended up, they can count on the uniting strand of a popular culture that is so target-marketed and spun that you could predict its essential substance without ever picking up a specific record lable or movie poster...
...youth allows you to forgive Emma," says McGrath, for whom Paltrow was the only choice. "When you think of other actors who are 21, your options aren't promising. You have a grim poster staring you in the face. It's like, 'Shannen Doherty is Emma'? I don't think...
...bias is even evident in the poster animals for the animal rights movement. How many rats have been used in speeches to evoke compassion? Most of the animals we think of in research are primates and rabbits. Yet federal agencies estimate that of the 17 to 22 million animals used in laboratory research, 85 percent of those are rats and mice...