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...Park in the South Side. But historically, city-planning efforts have lagged here. Perhaps the most notorious were the Robert Taylor Homes, prison-like warrens of barred windows, circling police and neglected facilities that finally came down in February 2007. Most of those who died during the 1994 heat wave that killed more than 700 people were South Siders. Before Katrina, it was the deadliest natural catastrophe in the U.S. since the 19th century. The morgues ran out of room. Bodies were piled in milk trucks...
...attest. But the 6-ft. 5-in. (1.96 m) Perry, who in civvies has the smooth good looks of a Will Smith, cuts an arresting figure. Outfitted in a purple print dress, giant glasses and sandbag bosom, carrying a purse with three handguns and punctuating every comment with the wave of a cigarette, the star stomps around the stage shouting out orders and ridiculing the supporting characters for being too short, too fat or insufficiently black. In these "recorded live" stage performances, he also evidently enjoys breaking the other actors' rhythm. You're encouraged to believe that this...
...conveys a subdued mood that seems appropriate for the temper of the times. Several other commercials, especially those with a satiric bent, were scrapped in the wake of the attack on America... the Spears spot has already clicked with test audiences and ties in with the current wave of nostalgia...
Concomitant with the wave of nostalgia that followed Sept. 11, 2001 was a wave of escapism, manifest in the celebrity culture of Bonnie Fuller’s weekly feature, “Stars—They’re Just like US!” showing Ben Affleck pumping gas and Kate Hudson at supermarket. Within a month of Britney’s Super Bowl commercial, the seeds were sown for our collective consumption of her downward spiral. “The genius of Bonnie Fuller’s new approach was that almost any picture of a celebrity doing...
What do you mean by a Third Wave? It's not a political movement like as a party. I think it's more a belief or a phenomenon that's happening in our society and that the majority of our people are tired of extremism and the exaggerations of the factions on the right and the left, and generally of factionalism altogether. Society is moving in a direction to put people with expertise in charge, people who are both idealistic but also realistic. The extremists of both currents will be eliminated, and the majlis will move toward moderation, reason...