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...infamously rough Cabinet cigarettes, Be Ready condoms, even cans of Trabi Duft - fumes from the iconic Trabant car - and the very brand of hair gel preferred by former east German leader Erich Honecker. Young Berliners still gather at "authentic" G.D.R. parties, where guests don the uniforms of state organizations, swill Little Red Riding Hood sparkling wine and dance to ballads like In the East, which sold 300,000 copies a few years ago. This phenomenon of nostalgia for the lost east, dubbed Ostalgie, was neatly encapsulated in the 2003 hit film Goodbye Lenin!, a sweet-tempered comedy about...
...rant against New York: "F___ you and this city and everyone in it!" He spreads his venom ecumenically--to the Pakistani cab drivers and the black schoolyard studs and the Soprano wannabes in Bensonhurst, and to the Irish-American boyos of whom Monty is one. It's a swell swill of gutter poetry--written by novelist-screenwriter David Benioff and vigorously illustrated in a tabloid-surrealist style by director Spike Lee--that touches on everything New Yorkers, and Americans, love to hate about the big city...
...work for an NGO. Somehow, I finagle myself into a party at the ambassador’s residence. There, I meet the members of a congressional committee and, more importantly, their military escorts. Impeccably mannered, neatly dressed, well-spoken military men and women flood the patio while the congressmen swill rum punch. A naval attaché takes me under her wing and introduces me to all the “right people” as I marvel at her grace, strength, presence and poise. Later in the summer, I wait by the side of the road for a bus back...
...sure is tough. I feel genuinely bad for women who want buy comix and have to go into those horrifying comicbook stores hawking all that garish adolescent male art-swill. (I shop online to avoid them all.) There can be no doubt that part of comix' continuing marginalization has to do with past and continued alienation of half the creative force and half the consumer force. Trina Robbins "The Great Women Cartoonists" makes a tremendous contribution to rediscovering a fading history, with hopes of changing the future...
...sobering demonstration of how quickly a single isolated infection can hop from farm to farm and continent to continent. The current crisis began when a bit of infected meat found its way into a school lunch in Britain's Northumberland in mid-February and then, as leftovers, into swill fed to pigs at a local fattening facility. Before the first symptoms appeared to warn of the danger, the virus was spreading to farms all across the country as animals were shipped to slaughterhouses hundreds of miles away. Within a few weeks it turned up in Northern Ireland and jumped...