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...test, and the results were surprising. According to Baum, testing episodes in a “dead average” audience of 100 viewers and registering their every response from behind glass was an “Orwellian experience,” but demonstrated that audience members were drawn in by the action. “I’m very optimistic about the level of sophistication of the average American audience,” says Baum. “The feedback that the audience gave was really, really intelligent. Television audiences have become fairly savvy. When there?...
...late 1960s and 1970s, Stopforth consciously chose to engage with the politics and issues of his region, rather than, as some of his contemporaries were doing, trying to follow the art world trends in Europe and New York. He reflects that “there was a real line drawn between those who thought my work was very powerful and relevant, and those who thought I was corrupting art by engaging with specific political and social issues.” But Stopforth’s art is not about anything as simple as political parties—he points...
...chat at the Pope's Castel Gandolfo. Benedict's first encyclical was not a finger-wagging treatise on doctrine, but a paean to Christian love. The sometimes shy pontiff has even begun to enjoy all the adoration heaped upon him by the piazzas full of faithful. Still, Benedict has drawn the line on doctrine, pushing through a previously languishing document that bars homosexuals from entering the seminary, while encouraging Catholic politicians to condemn abortion-rights laws and gay marriage. One could say that the substance is the same, just the style is different. Those who know him best...
...appearance was amazingly consistent with the speculative police portraits drawn over the years; the last known photograph was taken in 1959. The boss had evaded capture by living a peasant's life, by counting on cover from the locals--and perhaps on the strength of his hit-man nickname "Bennie the Tractor." (You didn't want to be mowed down by Bennie.) Cortese actually came close to Provenzano in January 2001, but his target slipped away during a raid near the town of Mezzojuso. Last year, after 50 of Provenzano's aides were captured in a sweep, Cortese said...
...should the revolution come, an episode guide will provide a handy, illustrated list of who should go up against the wall. My Super Sweet 16 had its third-season premiere last week, building up to the broadcast with a drumroll of conspicuous consumption: four two-hour blocks of episodes drawn from the show's previous seasons. To witness such unself-conscious acquisitiveness in one sitting is like eating an entire normal-kid birthday-party sheet cake, wax decorative candles and all. There's the same queasy sense of monochromatic excess because all the shows are alike, from the fake panic...