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...masses, rather than simply avoiding the problem by posturing against the Nano. In a country with such a rapidly growing middle class, on the verge of becoming the world’s largest nation, the Nano is an exceptionally smart innovation. It is compact, it is safe, it is cheap, and above all it is more fuel efficient and produces fewer emissions than the vast majority of cars you’ll find on the Mass Pike or any other American expressway. In short, the development of India’s economy is more important right now than a relatively...
...team up 19. After a Penn layup, Lin came right back with another trey. Penn tried to claw back, but like clockwork, Lin matched each short-term burst of offense for Penn with another mid-range dagger.On a night where jumpers came easy and threes came cheap, Lin and Unger each had 21 points to lead all scorers. Unger shot 50 percent from the floor, including threes, and both players augmented their scoring hauls with six rebounds.Despite a poor shooting night, junior guard Drew Housman efficiently ran the floor, racking up eight assists on only two turnovers. More surprisingly...
...homage to misunderstood delinquents is its recurring misuse of Cat Stevens’ “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out,” guaranteed to enrage any “Harold and Maude” fan. Attempting to draw such a connection comes off as cheap and contrived, a sad reminder of how poorly the movie tries to encapsulate every cinematic teenage rebel of the last half-century.The film’s many unoriginal lines perhaps best exemplify this. At a party, the football captain, one of the countless students who feels he can trust...
...film.Once the film begins, it’s easy to see how this kind of cost cutting is possible. Throughout Sacchi and Caputo’s work, all signs point to an industry whose demand has vastly outgrown its resources. Clips from finished films have the reel quality of cheap commercials on your local community access station; cuts from frame to frame are sloppy, the picture is grainy and the audio is poor. Several of the other Nollywood filmmakers interviewed claim that the revival of the VHS camera to shoot their movies was essential to the survival of the industry...
...Darnielle’s acoustic guitar, the production values of older albums were quite different. Most of Darnielle’s back catalog finds him alone, strumming his guitar furiously, his voice passionate and raw. The tracks were frequently accompanied by an overwhelming low-fidelity hiss, courtesy of the cheap Panasonic boom box with which Darnielle recorded for years. This is not to say that the aesthetic change is an abrupt one; Darnielle’s conversion from lo-fi god to studio craftsman began with 2002’s “Tallahassee,” which dispatched with...