Word: pompadour
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...making sense. The man who created Twin Peaks and has raised $1.6 million to promote the virtues of transcendental meditation is now peddling jarring ringtones for your cell phone at $4 a pop. Available starting this week on davidlynch.com--a site that also features the director, complete with pompadour, delivering daily weather reports--the so-called strangetones range in freakitude from a childlike voice repeating "My teeth are bleeding" to an overlord-type voice growling "I ... like ... to ... kill ... deer." Another ringtone, which consists of high-pitched screeching that sounds not unlike fingernails on a chalkboard, is aptly named Angst...
...Wang's pompadour is visible on news kiosks across the country. The Chinese magazine Business World featured his plans to become a mobile-phone magnate. A new book, The Holley Breakthrough, celebrates his firm, best known for selling electricity meters, as "the model of the Made-in-China era." But the greatest awe is for Wang's acquisition of foreign companies, especially public ones, a strategy with great symbolic value in an era in which China wants to assert itself as a global investor, not just an exporter...
...cheers from the audience when she sings about a construction worker who goes insane practicing Falun Gong. In Act II, an opera troupe sings about a practitioner who burns himself alive. For the closer, a man in a white tux, red bow tie, studded cowboy boots and an Elvis pompadour croons: "Li Hongzhi is a poisonous snake." No one in the audience has come freely. All have been bused in for "educational entertainment" from the Beiren Group, which makes printers...
...cardinal rule of celebrity is that image is the message. Once you become part of the public consciousness?as Beat most definitely has?you tamper with your projected reality at the risk of career suicide. Marilyn could never go brunette. Elvis didn't dare give up the pompadour. So how do we explain Beat's wildly contrasting images?the violent cool cat on the silver screen and the goofball on TV? And why does it somehow all cohere in the Japanese mind...
...head shots taken from popular Japanese trading cards of an adolescent female theater troupe. At the top of the image, a short-haired boyish actress smiles seductively at the viewer. Below we see the same woman dressed in a tuxedo jacket and bow tie, her hair coifed in a pompadour which would have made the young Sinatra proud. Yet apart from her obvious male dress, she appears somehow more feminine, wearing eye-liner, mascara, and maybe even lip gloss as the white-paper highlights of her icy smile suggest. Garnished with a few Japanese characters, these pieces coyly play with...