Word: consciousnesses
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...game sequences is clear, suspenseful and witty. Alfred Hitchcock used to say that you could make a movie in a telephone booth if you were skillful enough, and a poker table is not much bigger. To concentrate on it as intensely as Hanson does, without becoming flashy or self-conscious (and without investing anyone but his leads with a lot of distracting back stories) requires discipline and trust in his material...
...humorously named pies ("Baby Screaming its Head Off in the Middle of the Night and Ruining My Life" is another) you come to accept them as a convention this movie seems to require. Besides, they look delicious, unlikely as some of their ingredients appear to be. They are self-conscious grace notes, little tastes of the transformative possibilities that can be found even in essentially dismal lives. There's something spunky about those pies and there's something spunky about Waitress in general. Shelly wrote her screenplay when she was pregnant for the first time and it obviously reflects both...
...scheduled for groundbreaking late next year. "For the first time," explains Strong, "a developer has set course to create an entire town built according to principles of sustainability while keeping it competitively priced." Located 45 minutes north of San Francisco, the project is an entire community of environmentally conscious--and solar powered--apartments, houses and stores. "This," says Strong, "is solar for the people...
...would expect, Hofstadter’s new masterpiece is indeed a strange loop, but one that deserves close attention.“I Am a Strange Loop” sets out to probe the essence of the soul—in a philosophical, cognitive sense, not a religious one. Consciousness, soul, and “a light on inside” are all terms referring to the essential “I” which somehow composes an individual human self.The book argues that this “I” is a kind of loop, leading to its title?...
...examples of environmental destruction. They detail the work of pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson, and use her experiences as a springboard to discuss the challenges posed by toxic pollution and how environmental contamination contributes to cancer. The solutions they provide in the first chapters are sound—highlighting environmentally-conscious manufacturing and sustainable urban planning, among other things. Still, these first two chapters struggle to be relevant, and the book goes on far too long before more timely concerns are taken up.The authors start to hit their stride as they enter the middle four chapters, addressing air pollution, water pollution...