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...Just this week, executives from General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC and Ford Motor were offering reporters sneak previews of vehicles due out in 2009 and 2010 despite huge uncertainty surrounding their future. "We've got to stay focused on what we do," notes Ed Welburn, GM vice president of design, who says his designers have no choice but to keep the creative energy high. "We know they're in Washington. We can't ignore it," Welburn said...
...Director Peyton Reed's early features, Bring It On and Down with Love, were in-your-face comedies with a Pop art design scheme; they aimed to get to endearing by going through aggressive. Reed found a subtler tone in his Vince Vaughn-Jennifer Aniston hit The Break-Up, in which both the humor and the despair rose from domestic behavior that, if exaggerated for dramatic effect, was still recognizable. Yes Man straddles those two styles. It ambles along, Judd Apatow-style (and includes a fellatio gag that should have earned the movie an R rating) while affording Carrey...
...thought about it a few times. It's a pretty complete world, making movies. It's painting, it's design, it's fashion, it's history, it's philosophy, it's literature, it's photography. It involves so many different ways of expressing yourself...
...Poor TIME-ing I have been reading TIME for over 60 years and am appalled by the Luxury Index in the Style & Design supplement [Winter 2008]. What poor timing and poor taste to release an issue of overpriced, unnecessary items when the world is suffering from recessions and downturns. I am offended that this issue would be published when so many people are struggling to keep roofs over the heads and food on the table for their children. Watches for $200K! Customized $13,000 purses! How about following it with an issue on how to conserve funds and make...
...President was seen as failing to act against greenhouse-gas emissions long after most U.S. scientists had concluded that global warming was indeed man-made. Many scientists were also dismayed by Bush's ban on funding for most embryonic stem cell research and his endorsement of intelligent design being taught in schools alongside evolution, despite the prevailing view among scientists that intelligent design is not a scientific theory, since it cannot produce testable hypotheses...