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...work is $1.20. If the miners are lucky, they can take small chunks of coal back home to heat their hearth. Still, Guizhou's able-bodied men clamor for these jobs. "How can the government close the mines?" asks Zhu Hua, 20, who has been working underground for five years. "We need the coal. Everybody does...
...From Hell," the second underground-comix-originated movie in one year (after "Ghost World") comes out in October. Based on Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's deeply creepy Jack-the-Ripper series of the same title, it stars Johnny Depp and Heather Graham. The original creators had nothing to do with the adaptation and it sounds dubious, but we shall see. Meanwhile the original authors are coming out with another single-issue comic, "Snakes and Ladders," self-published by Campbell in September. Apparently it involves Oliver Cromwell and the pre-Raphaelites and the history of the universe...
...changing rock audiences. The generations before us listened to rock 'n' roll to show that they were better--freer, wilder--than their parents. We listened to our music to show that we were better--worldlier, smarter--than our peers. Sure, the '60s had cult bands like the Velvet Underground, but G.I.s in the Mekong Delta and grad students with deferments all listened to the Doors. When Madison Avenue later tried to reach them, it did so with songs like the Beatles' Revolution that were part of everybody's pop-culture patrimony. Only by the '80s could there be a thing...
...there’s no conversation. Interacting with someone means they can affect you. We’d rather reduce each other to the fish tank. Alternatively, we can talk very loudly into our cell phones (this being the capital and Verizon a company with foresight, underground mobile gabbing has long been possible...
...their children. But as a father of three who has to ration Nintendo in his own home, Ohmer, rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Leesburg, Va., also knew it wasn't as simple as just telling families to buy less. So he revved up what he calls an "underground Christian resistance movement" for parents, offering parish workshops that urged them to make an inventory of their lives and holidays and then imagine the ideal version. Their dreams, it turned out, entailed a lot less Visa debt and a lot more intangible stuff. What they needed to do, he advised...