Word: askew
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...Thank you for Amy Sullivan's candid assessment of the Roman Polanski crime [Oct. 12]. It is ironic that Hollywood is exuberant about throwing a demonstrably contrite Mel Gibson under the bus yet is eager to rally around an unrepentant Polanski. Somehow the moral compass in Hollywood is dramatically askew and rigged against those who don't genuflect properly. It has been striking to watch the Hollywood élite tripping over themselves to muster support and condone Polanski's transgressions. Stewart Quealy, TEMECULA, CALIF...
Thanks for Amy Sullivan's candid assessment of the Roman Polanski crime [Oct. 12]. It's ironic that Hollywood is exuberant about throwing a demonstrably contrite Mel Gibson under the bus yet eager to rally around an unrepentant Polanski. Somehow the moral compass in Hollywood is dramatically askew and rigged against those who don't genuflect properly. It is striking to watch the Hollywood élite tripping over themselves to muster support and condone Polanski's transgressions...
...Jonathan Lethem returns to the territory that has proved particularly fruitful for him this past decade - his home town of New York City. Yet, unlike Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, his latest, Chronic City, is set across the East River, in a Manhattan just a few degrees askew from reality. Lethem spoke to TIME about the American obsession with its own pop culture and why book readings are typically a snore...
...sync with an external server. (Both Microsoft and Apple operate external time servers synced to the atomic clocks carrying the official U.S. time.) But if a computer doesn't have an active Internet connection, or if time-synching is somehow turned off, a computer's clock can run askew. In addition, there's often a short but significant lag that occurs when a computer queries a distant time server, which is mainly a problem on company computers. While many companies have tried operating their own time servers as a way to increase accuracy, in many cases they...
...only of religion but also of taste and style and, yes, even humor. But what can possibly make Stein's humor superior to anybody else's? There have always been scoffers, so what is new here? Why print this? Or am I just too unfunny and literal-minded? Thomas Askew, DANVERS, MASS...