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 containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.”
—J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)
“The highest end of government is the culture of men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)