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...Some of the protests that began as peaceful vigils for the victims have become platforms for the recently dormant opposition movement. On Wednesday night, troops responded with tear gas and rubber bullets as protesters blocked a major highway in eastern Caracas and set trash bins and tires afire in an affluent neighborhood. "This doesn't solve the [security] problem, but it mobilizes people," said Jostan Carvajal, a doctor who held rocks in his hand while other protesters threw objects toward the National Guard. "I think this will be a little spark that will restart the opposition movement...
...think if it sold out, I would not use it for the same reasons I would not use MySpace, because it would be stalker trash,” said Joshua H. St. Louis ’09. “It would just be an advertisement page for corporate America...
Vultaggio treats the battle for supremacy in the $3.5 billion ready-to-drink tea category like a heavyweight bout, and he plays the role of the trash-talking underdog. He dismisses Lipton (made by Pepsi and Unilever) and Nestea (a Coke-Nestl partnership) as "garbage." His advice to Coke: "Fire those people [the marketing executives]. Put them on a truck, and run them south. They're out there covering their asses." Vultaggio gloats about the fate of Snapple, once a proud independent like Arizona, that was swallowed and spit out by Quaker Oats and is now part of Cadbury-Schweppes...
THERE'S AN IMPRESSIVE GROUP OF COMPETITIVE YOUNG WOMEN GOLFERS RIGHT NOW--AND OCCASIONALLY YOU GET SOME TRASH TALK FROM THEM. It's nice to see that they have their opinions. They have the right to say whatever they want to say. It doesn't bother me. I'm used to people judging me without even knowing me. I'm in high school...
...Oscar for Refusal to Kiss Up goes to ANNIE PROULX, 70, on whose 1997 short story Brokeback Mountain was based. After Brokeback lost the Best Picture Oscar to Crash, Proulx wrote a vituperative column in the Guardian, attacking the winning film (which she refers to as Trash), Hollywood types ("somewhat dim"), the awards event ("reminiscent of a small-town talent show" with "an atmosphere of insufferable self-importance") and even innocent bystanders Three 6 Mafia ("an atrocious act"), who won the Oscar for Best Song. She also lays into the Academy ("conservative heffalumps"). Yep, she used the H word. This...