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...iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder What Christmas present should you give to the frequent traveler who has everything? A great book, of course - and this year, competition for the Yuletide dollar has travel publishers offering up some terrific new choices. Among the better picks is Lonely Planet's new guide to the entire globe. Aptly titled The Travel Book, it skims over every country...
What makes state propositions especially troubling is that when enacted, they become binding constitutional amendments or inflexible law statutes, reducing budgeting flexibility. While the Founding Fathers had the smarts to know that frequent meddling with the U.S. Constitution by means of amendments would encourage tinkering based on impulse rather than reason, California has made such frequent and destabilizing alterations easy. Moreover, these initiatives create a false binary on issues that are often multifaceted. Facts become the first casualties, and complexities in the issues also disappear. Unlike the California Legislature, which can debate and amend bills, the public is forced...
Seeking The End of The Lines Air travel without long queues and gridlocked terminals? It's a frequent flyer's dream. But IBM may be on the verge of making it a reality. The computer maker's Paris office this week begins marketing the PaxFlow Simulator, a hardware-software system it claims can predict the number of passengers at particular locations and times in an airport one week in advance...
Similarly schizophrenic direction is scattered throughout the entire film: the camera stays almost exclusively in extreme close or medium-close shots in order to provoke an ultimately false sense of intimacy and the film frequently inter-cuts between Charles’ sketchy adult life and the recording or performance of some of his biggest hits in an effort to exploit the emotion of Charles’ songs. But there is nothing but distance in Ray; the disruption in tone caused by the frequent comic interludes undermines our ultimate attachment to these characters...
...convinces a woman to make him her slave. The beautiful woman, the Venus in furs of the title, becomes cruel and abusive while trying to sexually please. The Romantic era work caused an outrage in Sacher-Masoch’s home city of Lemburg and has been subject to frequent bans ever since...