QUOTE: It is a strange combination: workers who still have a job are doing better than in other deep recessions, but the unemployment and underemployment have risen to their highest level since the Depression.
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Stephen “SS” Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is one of the most notorious supervillains ever to live, and archenemy of Superman.
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There was some confused & indignant reactions to my statement that Sloane ends up with Cameron & not Ferris. I’ve based this belief on many many viewings of the movie, discussions with fellow fans, an interview I once read where John Hughes said that Cameron and Sloane end up together (which of course I can’t find), and some wonderful Hughes essays that I’ve read over the years. seularen posted a gorgeous paragraph or two about Sloane & Cameron & said:
Sloane and Cameron totally end up together. Sure, Ferris is super excited about marriage, but do you ever think he’d actually go through with it? Of course not. Plus, Ferris isn’t really a real person to Sloane; he’s more of a caricature. Only Cameron really sees Ferris for who he is, which is a confused teenager propping up his huge cut-out image of a Titan amongst men so he can hide behind it.
The moment that cements Sloane/Cameron for me is actually when they’re talking about Ferris during the parade. It’s their ~shared interest, if you will, but you see the realization sinking in that Ferris is bigger than both of them. The parade is when you see Ferris truly enjoy himself, and it’s in that moment when he’s at his biggest. He leaves Cameron and Sloane both behind in his brightest moment, and I think he’d leave them both after graduation as well.
(I may have written a film essay about this once.)
Also, I want to read that essay! It’s a great debate and I enjoyed reading the responses. Proof once again that John Hughes was genius.
Don’t forget the pool conversation between Cameron and Sloane.
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Balding female bears at Germany’s Leipzig Zoo are baffling vets working to figure out the condition’s cause— especially since the normally fluffy brown bears should now be growing a thicker coat to keep warm during the winter.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Original Version (via crinanthebrave)
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Wikipedia -
References
The poem is notable for its extensive political and cultural references, many of which may be unknown today. The list below links to some of the references Scott-Heron makes.
- “Plug in, turn on, and cop out,” a reference to Timothy Leary’s pro-LSD[1] phrase “Turn on, tune in, drop out.”
- Skag, slang term for heroin
- Xerox, best-known manufacturer (at the time of the poem’s writing) of photocopying machines. The name has also become a genericized trademark that colloquially means “to photocopy”.
- Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States
- John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General under Nixon
- General Creighton Abrams, one of the commanders of military operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War
- Spiro Agnew, 39th vice president of the United States under Nixon
- “Hog maws,” sometimes misheard as “hog moss,” soul food made from the lining of the stomach, or maw, of a pig
- Schaefer Award Theater, radio show by Dick Clark
- Natalie Wood, film actress (incorrectly referred to as “Natalie Woods”)
- Steve McQueen, film actor
- Bullwinkle, cartoon character
- Julia, a TV half-hour sitcom series starring Diahann Carroll
- “Give your mouth sex appeal,” from Ultra Brite toothpaste advertising
- “The revolution will not get rid of the nubs,” the nubs being beard stubble, from a Schick razor advertisement of the period.
- Willie May, an Olympic medalist who competed mainly in the 110 meter hurdles.
- “NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32,” a reference to television networks predicting the winner of presidential elections shortly after the polls close at 8:00.
- Instant replay, a sports television term
- Whitney Young, civil rights leader
- Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP
- Watts, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, referring to the Watts Riots of 1965
- “Red, black, and green”, the colors of the Pan-African flag
- Green Acres, a U.S. television sitcom
- The Beverly Hillbillies, a U.S. television sitcom
- Hooterville “Junction” [sic], the fictional setting of Green Acres and Petticoat Junction (all three shows were created by Paul Henning)
- Dick and Jane, white children, a brother and sister, featured in American basal readers
- “Search for Tomorrow,” a popular a U.S. television soap opera
- “Eleven o’clock news”, a reference to a generic television news program
- “Women liberationists,” a reference to the feminist movement, some of whom did not shave their armpits
- Jackie Onassis, seen during the period in television broadcasts covering Kennedy memorials
- Jim Webb, U.S. composer
- Francis Scott Key, author of the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner”
- Glen Campbell, U.S. pop music singer
- Tom Jones, Welsh pop music singer
- Johnny Cash, U.S. country music singer
- Engelbert Humperdinck, British-American pop music singer
- Rare Earth, all-white U.S. pop music band signed to Motown Records
- “White tornado”, advertising slogan for Ajax cleanser, “Ajax cleans like a white tornado”
- “White lightning”, a slang term for moonshine, the name of a 1950s country and western song by George Jones, and an American psychedelic rock band
- “Dove in your bedroom”, a television advertising image associated with Dove Anti-perspirant Deodorant Cream
- “Tiger in your tank”, an Esso advertising slogan created by Chicago copywriter Emery Smith[2]
- “Giant in your toilet bowl,” reference to the Liquid-Plumr commercials saying that it cleared so well it was like “having a giant in your toilet bowl” (to work the plunger) with an animation of a large disembodied arm using a plunger on your toilet.
- “Go better with Coke”, a Coca-Cola advertising slogan, “Things go better with Coke”
- “Fight the germs that may cause bad breath”, from Listerine advertising
- “Put you in the driver’s seat” (advertising slogan from a car rental company, Hertz)
- A Rerun is a re-airing of an episode of a radio or television broadcast.
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