Word: pulp
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...that in order to satisfy the ever fickle tastes of young Japanese patrons, domestic labels have had to double their output compared with European clothiers'. The endless search for the next new thing, dubbed shinhatsubai in Japanese, affects everything from orange juice at the convenience store, which contains less pulp in the summer months, to ever so slightly different shades of khaki cargo pants for each season. Some fashionistas sniff that mix-and-match collaboration is simply this year's shinhatsubai. But the trend's champions argue that this craze might have a longer shelf life because it allows both...
...serial killer Patrice Alègre confessed to the 1992 murder of a transvestite, and claimed he'd done it on the orders of former mayor Dominique Baudis, now head of the agency that oversees TV and radio programming. Baudis hotly denied the charges, and last week, in a pulp-novel plot twist, Alègre recanted. The French media , which spent the past six weeks hounding Baudis, was left issuing pious but guilty-sounding reminders about the presumption of innocence and the risks of believing psychopaths. Baudis also faced down another accuser, a former prostitute who alleges having seen...
...five-year plan like the Soviet Union's, only ours was successful," says co-author Bui, visiting London last week for the U.K. launch. (An unusual media tour: no television appearances or photographs. Avoiding the corrupting power of fame is a Blissett principle.) "We're fans of pulp novels," he adds. "We love Elmore Leonard. Also Dashiell Hammett. And James Ellroy, especially American Tabloid, his 1995 novel about John F. Kennedy. We wanted to write a book like that set in Europe." Over five years they sketched out a plot ("except for the ending, which would have been...
...baby tooth will often put it under their pillow for the Tooth Fairy. But Julia Shi's dad Songtai is a dentist and a medical researcher at the National Institutes of Health. When Julia, then 6, shed a tooth recently, they noticed that a little piece of red pulp was still attached. That gave him an idea, and the next time she lost a tooth, he placed it in a liquid used to culture cells. Back at the lab, he extracted the pulp and found that it contained a number of stem cells, those special progenitor cells that...
Overall, though the production can be construed as overly flashy or a mere attempt at Shakespearean pulp, that flashiness is what brings Richard III a fresh life on the Mainstage. And though it doesn’t take an adaptation set in an Aztec tribe to affirm the universality of Shakespeare’s drama, it does make for a wonderful spectacle...