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...don’t have cable,” said Ryan S. Nolan ’09. However, until Jack Bauer of Fox’s now-suspended “24” makes his comeback, it appears that many students are content to pull themselves off the couch and switch off the dial. “I don’t care that much,” said Peyton Shieh ’10. “There’s always YouTube...
...shopping day of the year falls on the earliest possible date, November 23, giving Americans 32 days before Christmas to find the perfect gift. But with the specter of a possible looming recession and a lack of must-have items in stores, fewer Americans are likely to leave the couch and hit the mall with the same kind of alacrity and determination they have in years past. "Black Friday is going to be a gray Friday," says Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst at the NPD Group, a market research firm in Port Washington, New York...
About halfway through “Blade Runner,” Harrison Ford sits down on a couch with a glass of liquor and inserts a photograph into a machine that looks like the bastard child of a dishwasher and a used VCR. It’s called an “Esper.” Its purpose? To vividly zoom in on any given portion of a photo, revealing clues to those who seek them. If there’s a metaphor for the experience of watching “Blade Runner,” this scene...
...come across a YouTube link for Tegan and Sara’s video for “The Con.” The meek opening chords, when coupled with successive shots of a nervously-jiggling, Converse-clad foot, followed by Tegan draped melancholically on a therapist’s couch, set the angst factor rather high. The ashy tones and urban feel just ooze somberness. The girls betray just enough tongue-in-cheek sensibility, however, that we’re willing to stomach some lonesome bed-writhing. The story is simple and possibly symbolic (more on that later). Sara goes...
...competitors, from World of Warcraft to that Miss Teen USA chick on YouTube, writers may need to dial down their expectations, and executives, their arrogance. Like news anchors and magazine writers, they no longer have the captive audiences or exalted places they once had, when Americans sat on the couch for prime time as though it were mandated in the Constitution. If they close down Capistrano for too long, the swallows might not all come back. The danger isn't anger; it's apathy...