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...government-owned property to private hands are essential for Russia's economic well-being. If the Russian government abandons these policies, the result will not be the Western-style prosperity of which Russians dream or the Soviet-style security that their memories have exaggerated. It will, instead, be rampant inflation and perhaps economic collapse...
...took over last November as boss at Givenchy. Galliano posed a threat on a few fronts. Unlike most couturiers, he is a genuinely colorful character, a camera's darling who changes his entire appearance a couple of times a year. His fashion reputation is based on his rampant inspiration, his romps through costume history that turn archives into seductive, in-your-face clothes. His specialty is the slinky, tricky, bias-cut dress (cut across the grain of the fabric), which is the design of choice for movie stars--or anyone who wants to flaunt a shapely figure. Galliano was chosen...
Feelings of alienation and cynicism, unfortunately, are very much in vogue in popular culture and run rampant through it. Anyone who has listened to the lyrics of such groups as Nine Inch Nails or Smashing Pumpkins has undoubtedly felt the incoherent and inexplicable anger conveyed by the music. (Not surprisingly, Seven director David Fincher has many music videos under his belt. The movie's opening music is, in fact, a Nine Inch Nails tune.) And it's impossible to watch television without seeing talk shows and real-crime dramas which amplify and extort human misery for ratings...
...democracy movement materialized, in part, because of the anger some Chinese felt over the rampant corruption at all levels of the Party. Through interviews with workers, students, writers and teachers, the film powerfully conveys its 'subjects' increasingly vehement mistrust of the Party...
Brazen self-reinvention is one of the great themes of American literature. Of course, when James Gatz turned himself into the fabulous Jay Gatsby, he was following the more traditional pattern of the outsider remaking himself as a metropolitan sophisticate. But in these days of rampant reverse snobbery, when "outsiderness" is prized and "insiderness" is shunned, there is no reason the same techniques cannot work the other way around. The fabulous fictional character "Lamar Alexander," for example--Republican presidential candidate, outsider, man of the people, scourge of Washington and everything in it--has been created out of Lamar Alexander...