Word: blinks
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...sentence of Ulysses, Gregor Samsa woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...
...system now, reworking the pathways by which narratives find their way in. Surrealism? Shock edits? Every rock video uses that stuff. But the people we profile in this month's chapter of Innovators--the storytellers--are the ones bringing even further change. Once novels were things on paper. Now--blink--they're online. The "marginal" characters--blacks, Asians, gays, Latinos--have moved to center stage. Even reality has become another story. What is Survivor if not Cast Away with more people and no volleyball...
...They're really simple ditties, by my standards," says Malkmus, 33, of the album's dozen songs. "They're not as simple as Blink 182 or something, but it's just a couple of chords." He's half right. Unlike the music of Pavement, which often defined itself by taking a couple of chords and finding the loopiest way possible to descend into chaos, Stephen Malkmus is instantly catchy, though still weird enough to satisfy the cult. The song Jo Jo's Jacket is a vague tribute to Yul Brynner, and The Hook may be the first indie-rock pirate...
Discovered in northwestern Australia, the prize specimen was dated by two separate scientific teams as either 4.3 billion or 4.4 billion years old. That puts it within a geological blink of Earth's fiery birth out of a swirling cloud of solar dust and gases 4.56 billion years ago. But how could any crystalline object solidify under such torrid conditions? The answer, the scientists reported in Nature, is that the planet was already bathed in cooling water...
What went wrong? Eiland has one of the army's keenest analytical minds. He speaks almost entirely in neatly memorized lists, usually organized in fives. His clear, blue eyes don't blink as he runs through the army's mistakes. Foremost is Israel's failure to acquire nonlethal weapons for riot control. At riots on the edges of every Palestinian town, the army progresses quickly from tear gas to rubber-coated metal bullets to live ammunition--though Eiland says the last step comes only when a soldier feels his life is clearly in danger or when Palestinians open fire...