“A country that has seen a sudden infusion of wealth and a rapid disengagement with its past tends to throw up people who are traveling very quickly and seem to have no clear antecedents,” Deb writes in the book’s first chapter, almost by way of laying out his thesis. This describes the Roaring Twenties as well as it describes India in the 21st century.
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by way of sansdoux:
Liya Kebede and Andre 3000 in Bring It On Home for US Vogue January 2005 by Arthur Elgort.
“It don’t mean a thing if it aint got that swing!”
| Amber: | Oh, WOW. Angela! Oh, Rayanne talks about her all the time. She's in love with her! She wants to be Angela. |
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| Patty: | Really! Gosh, they seem so different. |
| Amber: | Oh, you know kids. They find one person and they just can't get enough of them! It's like being in love, only they're not allowed to have sex. |
| Patty: | Riiiight. |
| Amber: | No, don't you remember? There'd be, like, this one person, who had, like, perfect hair, or perfect breasts, or they were just so funny, and you just wanted to eat them up -- just live in their bed, and just be them. It's like everybody else was in black and white, and that person was in color. Well, Rayanne thinks Angela is in color. Major color. |
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Spike Lee: Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee & Jason Matloff
by way of ilovehotdogs:
Have you ever been in the middle of one those sweltering New York City summer days? The ones where the air is as thick as a slice of Junior’s cheesecake. Where the smells of the city defy all logic and where a nudge on a packed subway car can quickly turn into a heated dispute. It seems that nothing can help cool you down and that everyone is close to their breaking point. This is the kind of day we see in Do the Right Thing, a film that two decades later is still relevant. It put Spike Lee on the map and brought to the surface issues of race that not everyone was ready to talk about.
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