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...Five’s” smoothed-out cousin, “Attention,” that burns on verses of pure, exhilarating power chords, chopped up with the kind of funky breakdowns that are missing from the rest of the album. “Rich Kid Blues” builds steadily, even brilliantly, into a jam-session explosion where, for once, White’s acrobatics are given their due floor space.But with these gems composing a small portion of the entire album, there is little more to “Consolers of the Lonely” than disappointment...
...Sochi meeting produced a rather amusing document, titled "The Strategic Framework Declaration," whose contents could be summed up in the old Russian adage that "It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick...
...fair-weather fandom that dominates the Harvard campus annually around October—that is, if the Red Sox have had a successful season. Well-intentioned and clueless Red Sox fans on campus perhaps can be forgiven for their feigned enthusiasm, for their understandable desire to imbibe the rich froth of Boston sports culture, for their all-too-human urge...
...socialism in the sky" to which Sun refers, is a planned complex of 72-storey towers that could be deemed a monument to Deng Xiaoping's notion that "to be rich is glorious." Plans call for three glass-and-steel towers linked by bridges and topped by a giant, disco ball-inspired sphere. It will be surrounded by a moat and will house several hundred apartments, a luxury hotel, a revolving restaurant, a gym, a doctor's office and a tanning salon...
...Mexican illegal experience: he picks tomatoes with the migrant workers, washes dishes in a restaurant, gets chased by the cops, and even has a run-in with a nasty white drug addict. In a parallel plot, his mother Rosario (Kate del Castillo) toils at the houses of her rich white employers, loses one of her crucial jobs, and searches in vain for another one. In the meantime, we learn all sorts of facts about illegals, like how they use P.O. boxes for their mail (“so the INS can’t find them...