Word: techno
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...company shortly after the runway show, the models began streaming out. The crowd became visibly excited when certain pieces emerged, such as the signature dress with flower petals on the straps. But for the most part they behaved politely, only murmuring to friends behind cupped palms. An upbeat techno playlist, which Remele later reprised at his trunk show, obscured their infrequent chatter. Most of the women in the audience were dressed as formally as the models, and although some came in jeans, nearly as many sported fur stoles and large pearls...
...Worse, the way Apple operates is not how you're supposed to foster innovation, or not in the U.S., anyway. Under the traditional, capitalist, Adam Smithian model, new and better things arise as a result of freedom and open competition, but Apple is essentially operating its own closed miniature techno-economy. What is this, Soviet Russia? Why not license Mac OS X to Dell, see what hardware it comes up with and let the market decide whose ride is flyest? Is Steve Jobs afraid of a little healthy wrasslin' in the great American bazaar...
...military webbing near the window gives it away. Inside, mortar shells and spent grenades are propped on ledges of the rough, bullet-pocked walls. Scrawled graffiti on the mezzanine level extols loyalty to armed factions, and the ceiling is lined with barbed wire. The music is not the techno pop blasting all night from most DJs' turntables across Beirut, but the nationalist crooning of wartime stars like Fayrouz...
...Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder level extols loyalty to armed factions, and the ceiling is lined with barbed wire. The music is not the techno pop blasting all night from most DJs' turntables across Beirut, but the nationalist crooning of wartime stars like Fayrouz. Some might consider this bad taste in a city where massive bombs continue to go off, recently killing Lebanon's former Prime Minister and a prominent journalist...
...1990s with the documentary Deep Blues and his recordings for Fat Possum Records, based in Oxford, Miss.; in Memphis. His raw, unrehearsed sound soon drew a cadre of mostly white, alt-rock admirers, some of whom, like Jon Spencer, became collaborators; one of Burnside's pioneering 1998 blues-techno tunes, It's Bad You Know, was later featured on TV's The Sopranos...