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...provide lessons for how to survive it: invest in knowledge, compete globally, rewrite the old rules of business. A couple of its signature companies, such as Alcoa, have announced cutbacks as demand slows. "No area is totally immune, but it is going to be, if we are right, a bit more modest in Pittsburgh," says Stuart Hoffman, PNC's chief economist. From ground level, Bob Intrieri can see the same thing. A partner at Allegheny Steel Products, he sells industrial innards to the machine shops and factories in the region: forgings, hubs, steel bars, wire belts used in furnaces...
...book about seventeenth-century Christians." She's right, for despite some lively writing, much of her tale of the settlers who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony involves internecine Calvinist squabbling. Thankfully, Vowell, author of the sharply funny armchair histories Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, injects a bit of Technicolor into her portraits of the stereotypically drab colonists: feisty prefeminist Anne Hutchinson, semicrazed zealot Roger Williams and the colony's first governor, John Winthrop, who coined the phrase city on a hill in a 1630 sermon to describe his hopes for the settlement. That vision--of a community...
...guess what really excites me is the prospect of [cultivating] a sense of the strange and the wondrous. The second was something that [English professor] Gordon Teskey said in a lecture. He was talking about how with poetry or literature or art it’s a little bit like taking a tree and making it into a table. The table is completely different from a tree, but in some ways it reveals the very heart of the tree, because you can see the grain of the wood in a way that you can’t when the tree...
...than just a critique of file-sharing, “Lossless” offers a captivating look at the possibilities and effects of a digital culture. The alterations often lead to striking results. In “Lossless #2,” a short film created from an incomplete bit torrent download, disparate images mesh with each other. A woman sticking out her tongue becomes another woman sitting down at a table; a cushion hides a female face. Similar merging runs through “Lossless #5,” as strings of dancing girls blur into a wispy line...
...Fleder himself was in the process of learning how to stage and film a football play. The early sequences of Davis on-field are cut at a furious and ultimately disorienting pace, with the camera so close to the action as to obscure individuals. Thankfully, Fleder slows down a bit and zooms out during the climactic on-field sequences later in the film. Football fans will be pleased as well with the accuracy of the football terminology and the true-to-life feel of the action. In its essentials, “The Express” is a movie we?...