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Feb. 22nd, 2004 04:45 pmOur old friend Jonathan Zittrain is quoted in an article about how the Internet allows for nastier attacks than mainstream media. Curiously, the article doesn't mention the parallel and well-established phenomenon of flaming.
Apparently the FCC's new phone number portability policy also means that you can transfer your land-line number to wireless. I've been sporadically thinking about abandoning the land line for a while now anyway, and none of the drawbacks listed in this article apply to me, except maybe for the one about emergency calls. Hmmm.
There are articles about Sex and the City in every section of the paper, and I didn't read any of them. I also skipped most of the many articles on the new theater season, but a photo of Alec Baldwin drew me into the piece on Broadway's "escape from escapism". I really wish I could see that new production--or any production--of Assassins.
Two articles bring up the seriousness of attention paid to cinema in the sixties, and not today. A. O. Scott writes of the new film The Dreamers, set in 1968 Paris, that "Mr. Bertolucci never subjects [his self-serious characters] to ridicule, and this, it seems to me, is what drives his detractors crazy."
David Sanger and Thomas Friedman both write that Democrats and Republicans have to be honest about free trade: Jobs are going to go overseas, and it'll be good for all of us in the long run, but as cheap jobs go abroad, we as a nation have to focus on how to make our own workers ready for better jobs. And Saritha Rai provides a less-seen perspective: How those outsourced jobs are changing lives in Bangalore.
Likable vs. Electable:
Low-carb diets in the nineteenth century.
Things to do in Austin during SXSW.
Apparently the FCC's new phone number portability policy also means that you can transfer your land-line number to wireless. I've been sporadically thinking about abandoning the land line for a while now anyway, and none of the drawbacks listed in this article apply to me, except maybe for the one about emergency calls. Hmmm.
There are articles about Sex and the City in every section of the paper, and I didn't read any of them. I also skipped most of the many articles on the new theater season, but a photo of Alec Baldwin drew me into the piece on Broadway's "escape from escapism". I really wish I could see that new production--or any production--of Assassins.
Two articles bring up the seriousness of attention paid to cinema in the sixties, and not today. A. O. Scott writes of the new film The Dreamers, set in 1968 Paris, that "Mr. Bertolucci never subjects [his self-serious characters] to ridicule, and this, it seems to me, is what drives his detractors crazy."
Matthew, Theo and Isabelle are, above all, lovers of what they unself-consciously insist on calling "cinema." It has been a very long time since a young American uttered that word with a straight face, and the ardor with which Matthew utters it poses an uncomfortable challenge to the current state of movie love, which prefers to speak its name only in quotation marks.And film critics Stuart Klawans and Nathan Lee discuss the new DVD of Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup:
LEE I think the kind of interpretive discourse that "Blowup" inspired back then is as much a period aspect of this movie as all the pop elements in it. It's almost inconceivable today that a film would stir up that kind of critical hand-wringing.
KLAWANS You may be right. And the reputation of "Blowup" has suffered over the years, precisely because it was such a big, glossy opportunity for bull sessions.
LEE We're embarrassed by that kind of talk now, aren't we?
David Sanger and Thomas Friedman both write that Democrats and Republicans have to be honest about free trade: Jobs are going to go overseas, and it'll be good for all of us in the long run, but as cheap jobs go abroad, we as a nation have to focus on how to make our own workers ready for better jobs. And Saritha Rai provides a less-seen perspective: How those outsourced jobs are changing lives in Bangalore.
New employees struggle to adapt to the new mores. "There are fresh recruits who come to me with questions like, `What is flirting?' " said Anna Chandy, who counsels workers at ICICI OneSource, a call center.
Likable vs. Electable:
"Last fall, Kerry was showing definite signs of contempt and disgust by raising his upper lip, but that's gone now. He's trying to be more likable by smiling more, but rarely can he get past the social smile to the genuine smile. Edwards gets there much more often. He conveys the most optimism, and lately he's been adding gravitas by knitting his eyebrows to show that he feels the pain of the other America."
Low-carb diets in the nineteenth century.
Things to do in Austin during SXSW.
