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...which they were presented.As Lambert-Beatty put it, “It’s not like Netflix.”Their goal was to interact with the community around them—New York’s Chinatown—by presenting high art material in a format that most people were familiar with. Therefore, they modeled their “social sculpture” on the neighborhood video rental store, and the work of art was that people could walk in, check out a video for free, and watch it in the comfort of their own homes.One...
...TIME Turns Another Page TIME's redesigned layout is very slick but reminiscent of New Coke [March 26]. That product was eventually withdrawn in favor of the return of Classic Coke. Clear titles in the old format made it easy to pick out the articles of interest for immediate reading. Headings like Briefing and Dashboard are meaningless. Please bring back TIME Classic! Bob Gottesman, CAROLINA BEACH, NORTH CAROLINA...
...requirements with, for example, departmental courses or freshman seminars.” Gone is the critical language in the Task Force’s report that “it is important to avoid confronting students with an overly-restricted menu…[and to] avoid imposing a one-format-fits-all requirement on general education courses.”With such broad power, the new committee promises to become a bureaucratic monster like its predecessor, stifling curricular and pedagogical flexibility and operating only in line with the letter, not the spirit, of its governing legislation. The new standing committee...
TIME's redesigned layout is very slick but is reminiscent of New Coke [March 26]. If you remember, that product was eventually withdrawn in favor of the return of Classic Coke. Clear titles in the old format made it easy to pick out the articles of interest for immediate reading. Headings like Briefing and Dashboard are meaningless. I also miss the best of political cartoons and humor. Please bring back TIME Classic! Bob Gottesman, CAROLINA BEACH...
...bother congratulating yourself. We're only halfway through Act 1 of Shooter, the latest movie in the conspiracy-theory genre. Filmmakers have spun some pretty decent political nightmares out of the fear of another Lincoln, McKinley or Kennedy assassination. The Manchurian Candidate, of blessed memory, established the format; The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, Winter Kills, JFK, Conspiracy Theory and last year's BBC fake-umentary Death of a President all ran cunning variations on it. Shooter, written by Jonathan Lemkin from Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact and directed by Antoine Fuqua, is an honorable rather...