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...video, shown repeatedly on Chinese television, depicts her high on the roof of the world wearing Tibetan robes, herding yaks and clowning with nomads. Her first performance in the capital two weeks ago packed Beijing's exhibition center with young Chinese who could afford to spend $50 for a ticket?and one apprehensive Tibetan lama with a shaved head who was anticipating crass exploitation of his heritage. Instead, he saw Dadawa share the stage with Tibetan musicians who played traditional religious tunes. "We Tibetans would never be allowed to celebrate our own culture like that," says the lama...
...anymore, though it felt like it might be the '80s all over again. MTV didn't have a ball this year; the hot ticket was the Texas Black Tie & Boots Ball--retro, perhaps, but still honoring the great Inaugural tradition of excess and bad taste. All week long the capital was filled with Halloween Texans, dressed in a way they never would have been at home. They sold out of full-length furs in Midland, Texas; for those who had never seen a ranch, $450 Stetsons were selling briskly at the Ritz-Carlton, where the chef was whipping up rattlesnake...
...poring over issues of Look magazine with ads for shiny Buicks and Chryslers, ever since American G.I.s camped out in his childhood home in South Wales, providing chewing gum during the austere war years, the actor had dreamed of the U.S. The movies, he now knew, would be his ticket there; as an adult, as an actor, he had been influenced less by the titans of the British theater than by the naturalistic style of Marlon Brando and James Dean. Did he want to be in a film...
Paramount is traditionally tighter, and only dispenses hot dogs as it pitches "Hot Ticket," its new show featuring film critic Leonard Maltin. "It's 'Siskel & Ebert' meets 'Politically Incorrect'," offers a helpful sales rep. "Would you like some chili on your dog?" I go for the chili. I feel guilty that I'm unable to buy the show...
...travel industry has managed (or mismanaged) to drain much of the freedom and spontaneity out of travel. Planning a big summer trip with the kids? Better make your reservations now. Want to take a flight that doesn't set you back a month's salary? Better buy your ticket weeks ahead of time. And God forbid you should want to change your plans later. That'll be $75, please--if you're lucky...