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...crossroads where prosperity and technology meet culture and marketing. These days efficient manufacturing and intense competition have made "commodity chic" not just affordable but also mandatory. Americans are likely to appreciate style when they see it and demand it when they don't, whether in boutique hotels or kitchen scrub brushes. "Design is being democratized," says Karim Rashid, designer of the Oh chair by Umbra and winner of a 1999 George Nelson award for breakthrough furniture design. "Our entire physical landscape has improved, and that makes people more critical as an audience." And more willing. Says Mark Dziersk, president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Redesigning Of America | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...just do it every couple weeks, he says. "We generally don't wash the shower, but we scrub the sinks...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Understaffed Dorm Crew Tries to Adjust | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...yuppie angst (Metropolitan was delightfully disaffected, but did anyone really care about Last Days of Disco?), Smith began a series of post-yuppie angst-noir with 1994's Clerks, a grimly hilarious movie that combined Seinfeld's inane blabber and outlandishly tragicomic situations with more angst than you could scrub out with a bar of Fight Club's Paper Street soap. After that came Mallrats and Chasing Amy, more dismally delightful chronicles of the post-yuppie malaise, all starring the director (in a requisite self-referential flourish) as the omnipresent Silent Bob. Not content with Stillman's trilogy concept, Smith...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: hush, yuppies: would you like some whine with your cheese? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...yuppie angst (Metropolitan was delightfully disaffected, but did anyone really care about Last Days of Disco?), Smith began a series of post-yuppie angst-noir with 1994's Clerks, a grimly hilarious movie that combined Seinfeld's inane blabber and outlandishly tragicomic situations with more angst than you could scrub out with a bar of Fight Club's Paper Street soap. After that came Mallrats and Chasing Amy, more dismally delightful chronicles of the post-yuppie malaise, all starring the director (in a requisite self-referential flourish) as the omnipresent Silent Bob. Not content with Stillman's trilogy concept, Smith...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undoing Yuppiedom | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...proposed trade isn't a good one for the Rockets. They would trade one star player for six ranging from scrub to solid. So it's obvious they do not want to make this deal...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLee-ve It! | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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