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...Ah, they go to look for what they're interested in.This is the now familiar lament of old media when it comes to online news. It's the idea that people might actually be able to choose what news they read or watch. Mr. Kohut, Felicity Barringer writes, "also said that viewing news on the Web took away one of the most important elements of news consumption in the old media, which is browsing." Now, let's forget for the moment that surfing is an exponentially more powerful version of browsing, and focus instead on Andrew's Lament...
...citizen doomed to play the vampire yet determined to play it to the hilt. And Welles sounds hokiest, and farthest from his own prodigious, wandering youth, when imitating the thin, whiny timbre of small-town America's young men in such period pieces as "I'm a Fool," "Seventeen," "Ah, Wilderness!" and "The Magnificent Ambersons." To hear him grow, and grow old, in a single hour, listen to his Edmond Dantes. The immature, innocent tones are tortured out of him; as he withers in prison, and is schooled in bitterness, his voice trudges down an octave, until by the time...
...Ah, the freedom of a vox-pop website! No fetters, no editors, no quality control. On amazon.com, for example, customer reviews are displayed prominently on the page of each book or CD being peddled. Authors are also encouraged to write about their works. In 1999, this notice for the sound track of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" appeared, signed by the score?s composer John Williams: "I remember writing Anakin?s Theme. I was sitting on the toilet, watching General Hospital, when all of a sudden I turned. The water plops brought together a syncopated harmony that I found...
...personal nightmare: out of college without a job. I stay quiet for a while, not really knowing what to say. Finally, the cabby asks me what I think about the Colombia-Honduras soccer game on Thursday. Ah soccer, Colombia’s solace...
...freakdance.” He then produced a “picture” of his ideal woman that he had drawn; it featured a topless homegirl with Jessica-Rabbit-style hair seductively covering one eye and a chest as believable as Lara Croft’s. Ah, the joys of community service...