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...that they are little more than highly structured versions of Jerry Springer, in which the feuding idiots are silenced by a decisive moral authority instead of a bald bouncer. Judge Judy developed this formula in September 1996, and was followed a season later by a revival of the '80s show The People's Court, currently presided over by former New York City Mayor Ed Koch...
Celebrity bonds are a natural extension of the $200 billion asset-backed securities market. It began with home mortgages in the '80s, when lenders began bundling thousands of mortgages into a single unit that then issued bonds and used the steady stream of mortgage payments to pay interest. Wall Street now "securitizes" everything from credit-card receivables to anticipated beer sales at Britain's Punch Taverns...
...chopped "outlaw" bike of the '60s represents, among other things, the desire to return to the raw purity of the early, "primitive" machine. On the other hand, motorcycle design in the '80s and '90s--especially in Japan--tended to enclose the machinery in baroque, forward-raked shells, bodywork that "floats" above the wheels and is loaded with sexual suggestion. Hence the argot for them: crotch rockets. What began as a proletarian vehicle (cheap transport for folks who couldn't afford a car) has turned into an expensive, deliberate body metaphor. The car may be your wife/husband, but the bike...
Granted, the two plays cover extremely different subject matters--Angels deals with the pain of the AIDS epidemic combined with the fear of the millennium’s end; while Slavs! pokes fun and raises questions about the state of the former Soviet Union during the late '80s and early '90s. In addition, the latter play doesn't contain the painful and poignant emotional turbulence that the former is famous for. To try to compare them any further would be useless. But rest assured that, if you were genuinely moved by the powerful presence of Angels last fall, you will...
When they first achieved prominence back in the '80s, the Beasties styled themselves as hipper than hip-hop, cooler than punk and masters of both. The trio's over-the-top boasts seemed to send up each genre's excesses. But the Beasties' new CD comes across not as a send-up but as a limp imitation of more interesting performers. The album's buzzing, beeping, video-game-like sound is an exhausted ripoff of hip-hop folk star Beck. A few songs work, like the sci-fi rap number Intergalactic. But for the most part, listening to this album...