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...smart drink" line called Elements, but the real thing is also "going to be tremendous," says Meyer. Not as promising is the durian of Southeast Asian, which the farmer says "smells like a toilet but tastes wonderful." Um, thanks, but we'll stick to contemplating our navel oranges...
Instead of providing a much needed substantive discussion of the changing relations of power and authority between adults and children, you provided us with a hollow piece of white, middle-class navel gazing. Children have clearly achieved a new, more empowered status as consumers, but you overstated the degree to which that has given kids the upper hand. More toys do not equal more power. In terms of politics, social policy and the institutions that directly affect and shape their lives, children continue to be relegated to the margins of social and political life. KYSA KOERNER HUBBARD Minneapolis, Minn...
...riding jeans have been growing in popularity for years now. But on the theory that any good fashion trend must eventually be carried to its absurd extreme, some celebrities are really taking the plunge--flaunting not just navel rings but also jutting pelvic bones, drastic bikini waxes and even a bit of cleavage from behind. Witness Destiny's Child's Beyonce Knowles, who briefly flashes a startling rear view in a scene from MTV's Hip-Hopera: Carmen, which made its debut last week. Or Janet Jackson, whose bikini string rises a full three inches above her jeans...
This Broadway tribute to the lyricist of A Chorus Line, who never had another hit and died of cancer in 1988, might seem a precious bit of Broadway navel gazing. Yet it is surprisingly fresh and engaging. Kleban's little-heard songs are witty and original--Sondheim without the thesaurus. And the creators (chiefly director and star Lonny Price) temper their affection with candor and insight into an artist more familiar with frustration than fame...
...looked quite prim and proper in her green calf-length dress as she waited for johns outside 109 Tongogaro Street in the center of downtown. So, for that matter, do the dozens of other women cruising the city's dim street corners: not a mini or bustier or bared navel in sight. Zimbabwe is in many ways a prim and proper society that frowns on commercial sex work and the public display of too much skin...