Popular Culture
The skyscraper features prominently in the 1983 film Flashdance (while still under construction), the 1998 Michael Keaton film Desperate Measures (serving as part of the "hospital"), as well as cameos in Sudden Death, Striking Distance and the 2010 rap video Black and yellow
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Famous quotes related to popular culture:
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)