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This week Jessica Biel was quoted on the subject of her beauty, which she said has gotten in the way of being considered for some parts. Easy Virtue, Stephan Elliott's uneven but charming adaptation of the Noel Coward play, is going to do nothing to dissuade the public of her extreme good fortune in the looks department. Striding around in wide-legged trousers or smiling from under some exquisite little cloche, she is dazzling on the level that makes you think perhaps that whole business with Helen of Troy wasn't so far-fetched. (See TIME's coverage...
...nearly 14,000 miles on the energy produced by an acre of switchgrass, while an ethanol-powered SUV could go only 9,000 miles. "It looks like converting biomass to electricity, instead of using it to make ethanol, makes the most sense for both transport and the climate," says Elliott Campbell, an environmental engineer at UCM and lead author of the study...
...daily schedule is relatively relaxed. He spends much of his day at home in Hudson or New York City reading books of poetry sent to him by publishers, keeping up with current events, and listening to music, mostly twentieth century classical pieces by composers like John Cage and Elliott Carter. “I’m very disorganized,” he laughs. “I sort of imagine I’m going to write and put it off to the last possible moment, maybe late afternoon. Then I mostly don’t get around...
...Doug Elliott, a former investment banker and fellow at the Brookings Institution, says that he thinks releasing the results of the bank stress tests is the right move. "For the test to instill any additional confidence we are going to need to know the results," he says. "It is going to be very hard for these companies to raise additional capital on their own. So whatever funds they need are going to come from the taxpayer. So we should know how much that is and who it is going...
...great import for the future of graphic design: the politics and aesthetics of appropriation and the exact definition of “fair use.” Heller was joined by Nicholas Blechman, his successor at The New York Times Book Review and creator of the acclaimed fanzine, Nozone; Elliott Earls, an avant-garde graphic designer and professor at the Cranbrook Academy of Art; and the panel’s moderator, Kevin Grady, editor of the award-winning pop culture magazine Lemon. The panelists expressed contrary views on the subject, which sprung from generational as well as political differences. Heller...