Beyond ‘Thelma and Louise’: Business, the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ and Pop Culture
Are our leaders behaving like “Thelma and Louise,’’ flirting with disaster, thumbing their noses at our nation’s economic livelihood? Here’s more on that reference — as well as other pop culture forays in the business world and off cliffs, fiscal and otherwise.
Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, playing an Arkansas housewife and a waitress, shoot a rapist and flee in a 1966 Thunderbird in 1991's "Thelma and Louise.'' As the authorities closed in, the two characters find themselves facing a world-class cliff (the Grand Canyon). "Let's keep goin','' Davis tells Sarandon. See the last minute.
Johnathon Carrington graduated Friday as the valedictorian of his neighborhood school, Dunbar High, and is headed to Georgetown University. But Carrington, 17, is nervous, and so are...
The Grand Medieval Joust at Eltham Palace, an English Heritage property that was the childhood home of King Henry VIII, aims to lend insight through reenactment into life at the palace...
With the Confederations Cup opening this week and the World Cup one year away, all eyes are on Brazil, where soccer is arguably played with more passion and art than anywhere else....
A decades-old backyard barbecue in Northeast Washington draws hundreds in honor of dads everywhere. “It’s off-the-chain fun,” says Butch McNair, who has worked one...
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