Word: xeroxes
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...with their parents until they’ve married. Where they come from, families coexist in a cheerful multigenerational chaos that Americans know only from pasta commercials. But American families are, and long have been, less rooted. Most of us will not extend our nuclear families so much as Xerox them with varying degrees of precision...
Once—say, at mid-century—college was the place you made that Xerox. You came to college from your hometown, met someone, married, and then replicated the home you’d come from—perhaps a little blurrily. John Updike ’54 married in his senior year here. In 1960, the median age of women at marriage was about 20; for men, it was about...
...irony-laced wit of The Simpsons, not an obscure little outfit in sub-Saharan Africa. But Pictoon - a cartoon company formed in 1998 by Sauvalie, a French-Cameroonian graduate of the renowned Les Gobelins animation school in Paris, and Senegalese businesswoman Aida Ndiaye, once the local agent for Xerox office machinery - wants to make Africa a cartoon hub for the world. Pictoon aims to win work from Europe and the U.S. that is traditionally farmed out to animation studios in Asia, as well as create characters and films of its own. "People in Europe and America think that...
...aggressive enforcement by the Department of Justice, which denied federal funds to any segregated school - they were revolutionary. Greenberg cites encouraging evidence today as the half-full approach: there are black Cabinet members in Democrat and Republican administrations; blacks hold top management positions in major corporations like Citibank, Xerox, Time Warner, and Merrill Lynch. When Greenberg started practicing law in 1949 there were only two black U.S. Congressmen. Today there...
...pound cardboard boxes filled with clothes - his first makeshift punching bag. Wiry, tanned and talkative, 54-year-old Dionisia nowadays lives next door to Pacquiao's new house, in a smaller place her son bought her. She leaves little doubt who her favorite child is: "He is like a Xerox copy of me," she says. The resemblance is as much mental as physical. "If I had been a man, I would have been a millionaire because I would have been a champion boxer," she adds...