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...could give any other movies this treatment, what movies would you pick? We'd love to do it with Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. With our fan base, we have to do something we know that people are already going to be familiar with backwards and forwards. And those are movies our fans know as well as we do. We couldn't do Joe Versus the Volcano or Kramer vs. Kramer...
...Persuading a teenager to go to bed and get up on a reasonable schedule is another matter entirely. This kind of decision making has less to do with the frontal lobe than with the pineal gland at the base of the brain. As nighttime approaches and daylight recedes, the pineal gland produces melatonin, a chemical that signals the body to begin shutting down for sleep. Studies by Mary Carskadon at Brown University have shown that it takes longer for melatonin levels to rise in teenagers than in younger kids or in adults, regardless of exposure to light or stimulating activities...
...rather than arguing forcefully against it, as Bill Clinton did 16 years ago—is usually neither a winning strategy nor an honorable one, and those who use it are as likely to drive voters from the polls as earn their votes. Candy for the partisan base draws readers to The Huffington Post, but it is not, on its own, an electoral strategy.As Bartlet said in one “West Wing” episode, the President of the United States is not just “the President of the people who agree with...
Throughout the years, Metallica has managed to remain heavily invested in metal while earning devoted fans outside of 17-year-old Nietzscheans and Eastern European satanists. Their 1983 debut, “Kill ’Em All,” won them their angry, head-banging base, but through the 80s and early 90s, a string of minor masterpieces like “Master of Puppets,” “Metallica (The Black Album),” and “Load” helped spread their proggish brand of thrash throughout American suburbia and beyond. After...
...occasion. Why am I admitting my obsession with these blatantly unintelligent shows in a widely circulated newspaper accessible to my peers? Because I think it’s important for readers to realize that I’m qualified to make the following statement: in terms of sheer base enjoyment, “Secret Life” is in fact superior to all the aforementioned programs.What makes “Secret Life” a pleasurable success is that it is in every way a failure. If viewers were trying to take the show seriously, they would find...