Word: blurring
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...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 But, he says, "if we stop judging our time according to outdated definitions of work, home and leisure, we are less likely to feel stressed out about the blurred lines."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...
Movies judder past on my little screen, so I watch the end of Zodiac on a Singapore-Narita flight, having watched the beginning, I think, on Singapore-Delhi. Books blur into one another until the best answer seems to be to read the novels of Haruki Murakami, which feel like the mellifluous sound of Muzak heard during jet lag, with their floating characters situated in Japan but living in the America or Italy of their heads. Just to make my disorientation complete, I get off a plane in Sydney because we are going to take on passengers from another (canceled...