Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...planning J.J.'s safe return to the sea, Yip had another concern: pleasing upper management at Anheuser-Busch, which owns the four Sea World theme parks and promotes its beer on the premises. Yip, unaccustomed to the image business, felt the weight of corporate pressure "for everything to go right." Critics of Sea World, who argue that park officials could simply release their captive killer whales if they truly cared about freeing animals, contend J.J. was little more than a cetacean Spuds MacKenzie. "The J.J. event was purely driven by corporate image needs," says Susan Davis, author of the book...
Martin McDonagh sits cross-legged on a bed, giving a visiting journalist the only comfortable chair in the ill-furnished brownstone apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side that has been the playwright's home for the past two months. A TV set, perched uncertainly on a table in the corner, flickers soundlessly. When not at rehearsals, the London native has been giving himself a crash course in American TV. Tops on his list of discoveries: South Park and the fights on Jerry Springer...
...pettiness of the accusations speaks for itself. Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ads provoke particular ridicule, and while the idea is indeed amusing, they pay his rent. The scorn reminds me of how the Russian upper crust once castigated Peter the Great for being unafraid to roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty. Amazingly, in our huge, multinational country, where the residents of St. Petersburg speak with a different accent from those of Moscow, Gorbachev's southern speech is held against...
Each family member wears a distinctive name-brand ski jacket that is ranked in a hierarchy somewhere between North Face and Columbia. Likewise, each carries a distinct pair of skis custom-fitted to match the specialized needs of these upper-middle class patrons of the latest and greatest in ski equipment...
Equality: Pilgrims going for the Hajj wear two unstitched white pieces of cloth, one wrapped around the waist with a belt and the other draped over the upper body. The uniformity of dress, along with other restrictions, removes from visibility the markers of wealth and class distinction. Rich and poor look the same at the Hajj, all equal in their status as pilgrims. The principle of equality is visible in real and large-scale application as the believers perform the rites together in a common dress. Images of the Hajj thus remind us all of the basic equality that supercedes...