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Unpacking my boxes from summer storage, I began to suspect that I was suffering from a severe case of mauvaise foi. Perhaps it was a symptom of the anxiety surrounding my recent 20th birthday or my more deep-seated tendency toward hypochondria, brought on by watching too many episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Yet, as I unearthed heart-shaped perfume bottles, caked tubes of mascara, and back issues of Vogue, I felt as though I had violated some ill-defined feminist responsibility. A twinge of guilt, beyond the purely financial, accompanied...
...essentially a chick flick, and it may be unfair to approach it expecting anything like depth. But the idea of looking for an articulate female self-consciousness in the movies isn’t irrational. Indeed, it’s in cinema—a very 20th-century development—that many of the most nuanced, sensitive portrayals of women over the last century can be found. The medium offers a liberating escape from the tired mini-skirt/power-suit dilemma over how to represent oneself outwardly as a woman. A film can instead represent a woman?...
Rock Band, though, is the big news for anyone who wants to get inside the top pop quartet of the 20th century, whether you're an experienced gamer or not. It arrives with the blessings of McCartney and Starr, the group's surviving members, and of Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison; all were on board to expand and exploit a form that didn't exist when the Beatles were shaking up the world. Harrison's son Dhani, 31, helped bring Apple and Harmonix together; Giles Martin, son of Beatles record producer George Martin, devised intros for the songs culled from...
...tour through both the claustrophobic history of the Kennedy family and the tumultuous latter half of the 20th century, True Compass is clearly Teddy's attempt at burnishing his legacy. In that regard, he is less than successful, though - he often seems more concerned with telling the story of the times than he is in telling the story of his accomplishments (for which he makes a surprisingly anemic case). There's a feeling at points that he's ticking off moments in history, rather than grappling with them. But it's clearly the personal anecdotes that readers will flock...
...Barack Obama has pledged to put broadband in every home through the use of tax credits. His plan stands in contrast to President George W. Bush’s deregulatory approach and harks back to the push to bring electricity and indoor plumbing to rural America in the mid-20th century. The goal is admirable, but may not yield much progress. Top ISPs have responded with a plan to simply redefine FCC’s definition broadband at a lower speed and introduce a three-tiered access system that could force consumers to pay more to receive the same connection...