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Eventually, Tata Motors hopes to sell a million Nanos a year. Even before it goes on sale, though, it has become an important symbol of an emerging trend in the developing world, a new brand of innovation that makes more out of less and engineers clever but cheap fixes to problems that Western companies might throw expensive technology...
...pyromaniac with manners, Baas is part of the "design art" movement that elides the distinction between the fine and applied arts. A graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven, he burns existing furniture - but just enough to scorch it. The charred remains are then preserved as "new" pieces. It's hellishly clever. www.maartenbaas.com...
...morally less problematic than potential mass-slaughter in the U.S. The obvious corollary of that position is that Iraqi lives matter less than American lives. We can agree that the rhetoric might often prove effective, because it feeds off residual patriotism and a climate of pervasive fear-mongering. But clever tactical ploys do not sound ethical precepts make...
...story] has had the same effect as Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds in 1938 ... The French were persuaded to believe in an American attack on French culture. The controversy of the past weeks is purely manufactured, the handiwork of three people: the clever journalist who wrote the article, the shrewd editor who put it on the cover, and the graphic artist who brilliantly associated the widely lamented death of Marcel Marceau with, if I may draw on modern French thought, the empty signifier "French culture." John Brenkman, PROFESSOR, BARUCH COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY...
...innocence about his soft and squishy mug, a heedless exuberance in his playing. He's happy to play dumb - allowing Dewey to live profitably within the unexamined premises, the mythic fatuity, of his media-driven myth. Like the other films Apatow has been involved with, Walk Hard is a clever blend of very broad, occasionally raunchy gag-smithing and an unspoken, yet palpable, social shrewdness. For the moment, at least, this guy is somehow plugged into our half-formed, half-subversive thoughts. Walk Hard is actually talking about - well, all right, goofily alluding to - serious issues, though its creators would...