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...television, I somehow manage to watch an alarming amount of it. Even worse, my bar seems to get lower as time goes on. There was a time when I confined myself to the highbrow scripted dramas, but following the endless eruption of new reality shows on MTV, VH1, and Bravo, I succumbed. Now my tastes have expanded to include shows like “The Real Housewives of Orange County” and “The Hills.” (I am happy to report that I am still holding out against watching “Celebrity Fit Club?...
...frame of mind, shedding not pounds but psychological baggage. Like a Dove commercial writ large, he gets plus-size women to see that they're sexy through such subtle steps as plastering cheesecake pictures of them on billboards and videotaping the hubba-hubba comments of passersby. Likewise, on the Bravo show Tim Gunn's Guide to Style, the Project Runway host transforms from fashion coach into life coach, firmly but sympathetically persuading woman after woman to throw out her old wardrobe--and thereby her old views of herself, her status and her limitations...
...Norka Ruiz Bravo, a deputy director at the grant-making division of the NIH, said that there are several programs targeted at young investigators to aid them in their transition from being post-doctoral fellows working with established professors to being independent researchers...
...developing a statistical, systems dynamics model for how many [grants] is the right number,” Ruiz Bravo said. “We have to understand this to target our policies to make sure we have a bigger pipeline...
...genre snobbery. Crime movies (later known as film noir) had a dark glory, a stinging postwar fatalism, but flew under the Academy's radar and beneath its contempt. Of the hundreds of westerns in the '50s, some were superb, like Ford's The Searchers and Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, but even those A-list directors could not interest Oscar in their oaters--zero nominations for those two great films-- or in John Wayne's towering performances in them...