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...teased anyone sexually in the U.S. for something like 20 years. New Yorker Robert Shalom, owner of the video club Private Eyes, says, "The guys are scared of these girls. 'What do I do?' they ask. The girls come on so strong, dressed in their mothers' best fake jewelry, saying 'Don't touch me, I'm the material girl, spend money on me.' " Waiting for a concert to begin, some of the boys who have tagged along will say that Madonna is, um, yeah, real sexy, but the cleverest, even as they scrape the ground nervously with one hoof, suspect...
...material girl." Luxuriating in materialism, poking fun at greediness -- she is performing for adolescents who feel deprived if their cars don't have quadraphonic cassette players -- Madonna is singing that she is available to the highest bidder, then denying that. And at the end, she pulls wads of fake banknotes out of the top of her dress and tosses them all to the audience. Do the Wanna Be's see materialism glorified here, or mocked? Of course, they see both, and see no contradiction...
...least one part of society: the pirates who manufacture counterfeit merchandise. The USA for Africa project, in which 46 rock stars donated their services to help finance a famine relief fund, has sued six manufacturers and retailers who have allegedly earned as much as $2 million from selling fake souvenir T shirts and sweatshirts. "They're contemptible, with no morals whatsoever," declared Jay Cooper, USA for Africa's principal lawyer. "They're taking money from the people of Africa." Last week a federal judge in Los Angeles issued an order forcing several Southern California store owners to stop selling...
...project hopes to raise a total of as much as $100 million, with at least $15 million coming from the sale of souvenir shirts. The fake merchandise has turned up in cities all across the U.S. Some of the bogus shirts can easily be spotted because a wheat-stalk symbol appears in the first letter of the word Africa instead of the last one. In many cases, the offending merchants have been turned in by consumers. Says Cooper: "People are absolutely outraged at this thing...
This process can be well worth it, says another freshman. "I have another fake I.D., but I made one on the Macintosh to back it up. Now that I have two different I.D.'s with the same birthdate and everything I can get served absolutely anywhere. Well, maybe not the Pro, but almost, anywhere...