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...legendary Spike Jonze. Instead of his usual display of egotism, Kanye is barely onscreen at all. The video opens with a Mustang parking in the middle of the desert at dusk. As the red brake lights turn off, the song breaks into its titular refrain and Playboy model Rita G exits the car dressed in fur and large black sunglasses. She promptly strips down to her expensive lingerie, then lights her clothes on fire. With flames now at her back and Kanye belting his rap, Rita G glides back toward the car. With her four-inch heels, push...
...National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a part of the Department of Health and Human Services, estimates that in a given year, 26.2 percent of Americans 18 and older suffer from a mental illness. That’s one in four of all of us. In the words of Rita Mae Brown, “Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it?...
...complaints--breathing difficulties and nosebleeds--have been trickling in for more than two years from some of the 38,000 families still displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita who live in FEMA trailers. The suspicions--that the trailers themselves caused the health problems--were confirmed only on Feb. 14. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the 519 sampled trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi typically contained an average of about five times the acceptable level of formaldehyde gas, a carcinogen. FEMA says it will attempt to relocate all residents before the summer...
...Institute of Contemporary Art’s (ICA) latest exhibition, “The World as a Stage,” opens with a most fitting visual prologue. Towering over viewers upon their entrance, Rita McBride’s “Arena” transforms the gallery into a theater for the modern art below. Inside the curve of the delicately skeletal set of amphitheater seating, museum patrons interacting with art displace ordinary theater performance on the imagined stage. Taken at face value, “Arena” is a piece of art that makes the life around...
...With reporting by Rita Healy/Denver, Hilary Hylton/Houston and Kathie Klarreich/Miami