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...multitasking habits have social and psychological implications as well. If you're IMing four friends while watching That '70s Show, it's not the same as sitting on the couch with your buddies or your sisters and watching the show together. Or sharing a family meal across a table. Thousands of years of evolution created human physical communication--facial expressions, body language--that puts broadband to shame in its ability to convey meaning and create bonds. What happens, wonders UCLA's Ochs, as we replace side-by-side and eye-to-eye human connections with quick, disembodied e-exchanges? Those...
...Marc Jacobs store in New York City. His tiny office is plastered with photographs and magazine clippings of famous clients?Sofia Coppola, Hilary Swank, Winona Ryder. Amid the beautiful clutter, the only discernible piece of furniture is a white leather sofa that looks a lot like a couch you would find in a shrink's office?which is fitting, since Rich is a therapist of sorts. His official title at Marc Jacobs is director of public relations for stores?he decides what to buy for the label's six U.S. shops?but the most important part...
Clients often spend the entire day with Rich, scrutinizing the latest collection and hanging out on the white couch. (Swank, however, prefers to plop down on the floor and eat pizza...
...diversify." All the talk about how teenagers and kids are turning away from television may be true, he says, but "young people will get jobs, get married, buy houses, buy big expensive TV sets and turn into the same people who are watching TV now." In other words, the couch potato is not an endangered species. The difference is merely that the next crop will consume television in different ways. "The Internet generation won't leave their computers behind, but they'll have just as much affinity for TV shows as the current generation," he says...
...with narrative, especially in the number of works with two people. “Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott,” from 1969, shows a couple, close friends of Hockney, in a room furnished with little besides a sumptuous pink sofa. One man, Henry, sits comfortably on the couch at center, illuminated from behind by an open window with a city scene. His partner stands in profile at the painting’s right, symmetric with the unadorned lamp at left, looking anxious. Although their story is not clear from the painting, their positions and expressions imply that there...