Word: blur
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...television and talk programs, creating a small community of highly visible and highly opinionated people. Newspapers pride themselves on unbiased reporting, but broadcast news’s format is frequently opinion- and personality-based. There is the dangerous possibility that the line between hard and soft news will blur as radio hosts and reporters interact while cashing checks cut by the same coporate overlords.While integrative shows may end up being successful, recent attempts to holistically combine newspaper-style reporting and radio programming have failed. Bonneville Broadcasting and the Washington Post attempted to team up for a commercial all-news radio...
...What is the big blur...
...Traditionally], we delineated our work, home, and leisure time. So if I was home, then I didn't work. If I was on holiday, I didn't work. When I was at work, I didn't have any leisure time. The big blur is a blur of all those things. With the BlackBerry, the boss knows that they can get a hold of you at ten o'clock at night...
Poscente is aware that many people are more than a little stressed by the "big blur" between free time and work time. But, he says, "if we stop judging our time according to outdated definitions of work, home and leisure, we are less likely to feel stressed out about the blurred lines." Just as work has become integrated into our home and leisure, "we can integrate home and leisure into our work. Time can be a single powerful resource that we use to accomplish our goals and dreams, regardless of where...
...Hong Kong star Tony Leung). To insinuate herself into his bourgeois world, and to ultimately seduce him, she transforms herself from a gawky ingenue into a ruby-lipped Mata Hari. She's initially playing a role. But her performance shades into real feeling, and their affair begins to blur the difference between seducer and seduced, becoming a mirror of the war outside: the bedroom is their battleground. "Love is the ultimate occupation," Lee says. "It's basically what the movie is about: she has to do this performance to withstand his scrutiny as an interrogator. Through which they have...