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...TransFormer toys. What they are is a kind of penetrating, wise-guy folk art. They reach into realms that have to do with magic and the objects that presume to have it, with power and the gaudy ways it announces itself, with the degradation of native art into gift-shop kitsch and the elevation of celebrity sports gear into sacred bling. By conflating tribal fetish and consumer trophy, Jungen has managed to tie any number of cultural assumptions and anxieties into a wickedly clever knot...
Compared with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, Clarkson is almost always portrayed as a wholesome, unsophisticated girl with an outsize natural talent--a bumpkin with a gift. She really was a cocktail waitress at a comedy club in her hometown of Burleson, Texas, before an Idol audition started her on the road to fame, but it's rarely noted that Clarkson already lived in Hollywood (she was only in Burleson because her apartment burned down), or that, as a demo singer for Gerry Goffin, the ex-husband of Carole King and co-writer...
...apparently, a racist. It’s also been said that I support slavery and wish that no progress had ever been made toward equality in civil rights. Why have I been labeled in this unfortunate manner? The simple answer is that I support Spencer’s Gift stores’ right to produce what some Asians have termed offensive and “racist”: a t-shirt that proclaims one should “Hang out” with one’s “Wang out” and depicts a slanty-eyed Asian...
...will, he left his alma mater an unrestricted gift of $1.5 million. Two-thirds of that sum went to endow the senior tutor position...
...President Bush?s speech the reference that produced the greatest mystery, and mockery, was his call for Congress to ban the sale or patenting of human embryos and the creation of ?human-animal hybrids.? ?Human life is a gift from our Creator,? he said, ?and that gift should never be discarded, devalued, or put up for sale...