Hindustan Times
Have you ever wondered, when you see pictures of models on the ramp: “Which normal person wears these clothes?” As the Paris and New York fashion shows have got more and more outrageous, it is a valid question. After all, these shows are organized by multibillion-dollar conglomerates which are in the business of selling garments. Shouldn’t they be more concerned with making clothes that people actually want to buy? Many ramp fashions are simply unwearable.
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Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Bernard Arnault, Christian Dior, John Galliano
Do people still read Archie comics? They were certainly very popular when I was young and entire generations of middle-class Indians grew up believing that the US was stuck in a late 1950s time warp where cheery local restaurateurs ran hamburger and milkshake joints, where college kids wore jerseys with initials on them, and nobody had sex at university.
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Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Archie, Comics, Joh Jeeta Wahi Sikandar, Sex and City
Bottled water is not a new product. It has been available in Europe for decades
Nothing symbolizes the gullibility of the modern consumer more than the bottled drinking water boom. Don’t get me wrong. I can see at least one good argument for bottled water: safety. In Third World countries, the water in the taps is usually unfit to drink. And restaurants often can’t be bothered to invest in water purification systems.
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Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Bottled Water, Coke, Global, Pepsi, Perrier, Third world, Warming
Batman Returns
Superheroes are back. Now that Iron Man, with Robert Downey Jr in the title role, has been such a, well, superhit, Hollywood is ready to film nearly every comic book ever written. The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to Batman Begins, is expected next week. A new version of The Hulk, with Edward Norton in the Bruce Banner role, has eased memories of Ang Lee’s terrible 2003 adaptation which wasted Eric Bana (he played Banner).
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, July 11, 2008 at 1:22 am
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Batman, George Reeves, Hollywood, Spiderman, Superhero, Superman
