Word: fashionedness
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Gibson's success has been seen as a vindication of old-fashioned gravitas over flash. Which is fair enough; Gibson is a trustworthy anchor heading a good, consistent newscast--Sanka to Couric's espresso. But while he may have struck a blow for TV's past, his success and Couric...
The quiet collector of these cool conceptualists, and Puppy's original benefactor, is John Kaldor. With his relaxed slate-blue suit and glasses, Kaldor appears more like a gentleman academic or architect. Yet in the dozen years since Puppy, the former Sydney textile magnate has fashioned for himself one of...
Would you call this movie an allegory? Allegory sounds too much like message film. To paraphrase [Hollywood legend] Samuel Goldwyn: "If you want to send a message, use Western Union." It's a fantasy. But I've included some ideas that are worth considering. The whole thesis about losing behavioral...
This fall, a Resource Efficiency Program (REP) initiative to encourage students to exchange incandescent bulbs for more environmentally friendly compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) was almost too successful. Students flocked to exchange their gauche bulbs for the trendier CFLs, leaving REP sitting on thousands of the old-fashioned ones. Obviously...
Flashback to 2004: it’s high election season and not a single Democrat can come up with a tenable solution to the already sinking war in Iraq. (Yeah John Kerry, 40,000 more troops will probably do the job.) Maybe if Ian Shapiro had written �...