The obsession of contemporary society with beauty ideals:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/style/2002/08/19/facelift/index2.html
in this article a 52-year old self-proclaimed "hippie chick" (because she protested against cafetarias not serving vegetarian food in the sixties...) retells the story of her "facelift" internal debate and the impact it has on her life.... Particularly interesting is the way she talks about the "trophy wives of oil company executives"....
For more information, consider: http://www.surgery.org/ to check out some "real", or at least "endorsed by the association of american plastic surgeons" examples of before and after...
For more typical Western paranoia, check out the special feature in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bigbrother/privacy/
It sure is a crazy world out there...
Thank you Prince & NPG, for your first live triple album, that you sent out yesterday, recalling the "One Nite Alone with..." tour 2002, we were there in D.C. on the 31st of March, so you can hear us scream on the first track.... (we were also in Antwerp and Paris... génial...)
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