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...neighborhood entirely absent of black people. White people have run miles and miles away from minorities, leaving vast suburban wastelands all over the country, wastelands where everything looks the same and white people do variations of all the same things. It’s left adults rotting on the couch in front of the TV and adolescents with nothing better to do in the middle of the night than go to Denny’s. Even with everything anyone could ever need, this homogeneity perpetuates a culture of made-up unneeded problems. I wouldn’t be surprised...
...recalled as a time of protest, anger, frenetic activity. But movies, always a bit behind the times, were focused back then on inner rebellion, the slouch of regret. It was when anguish got up from the analyst's couch and sidled onto the big screen. You can savor these DVDs for the vicarious angst or for the pleasure of seeing some movie lions in their prime. (Exhibit A: Alain Delon. Rawrr...
...nature's waste lots, ripe for occupation and improvement. Even the word desert implies "unoccupied." But despite the shortage of water and wide temperature fluctuations, deserts are the host of a wide variety of species, each of which has adapted in its way to life in a desert ecosystem. Couch's spadefoot toads can live underground for much of their lives, awaiting some moisture before they come up and breed. Saguaro cacti are able to suck up a ton of water from one rain shower and then do without more rain for a year. Sidewinder rattlesnakes move across dunes...
Mayne said he believes contemporary architecture is defined by a cleavage between aesthetically based interpretations—the way a building looks—and values based interpretations—what a project symbolizes and contributes. Mayne said he strives to couch his projects in the latter rubric...
...hard to make a decent video game? Let?s face it, a lot of the software released these days in the name of electronic amusement isn?t worth the effort it takes to lie on your couch and mash a button. But there?s that rare sweet spot where graphics, game play and storytelling come together to make a game work. These games...