Word: impaction
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...soon went microscopic. Big-budget films today are less likely to be adapted from classic novels than from graphic ones?essentially, long comic books. Comedies stayed around, but lost their manners. Hollywood movies, which had been traditionally tailored to the female audience, now went after the male market, valuing impact over nuance, the gross over the gracious. If Merchant-Ivory wanted the old genres, they could have them for free. So they ransacked your auntie's library for stories by Henry James (The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Golden Bowl), Jean Rhys (Quartet) and, most sympathetically, E.M. Forster (A Room With...
...know a jedi from Yoda, but John Cloud's Viewpoint "How Star Wars Saved My Life" filled me with joy as I read how the movies enabled him to discover and lose himself in those characters and their experiences. Cloud's descriptions of his feelings and the impact those movies had on his life show why brilliant writing and the imagination of people in the arts are so important in our lives. Michele Adashek Bel Air, California...
...Sachs, which last month raised a further $8.5 billion, and the Blackstone Group, which the Financial Times reported last week was planning a new record-breaking $11 billion fund. Indeed, private equity has become such a force that the mere rumor of a forthcoming deal can have a huge impact on stock prices. Shares in Whitbread, the British brewing and restaurant firm, jumped by almost 9% last Thursday on speculation that several private equity firms are circling. The stock dropped back again a bit on Friday; the company didn't comment. Why the flurry? Private equity funds typically oversee...
JACQUES CHIRAC, French President, warning French voters of the impact of rejecting the European Union constitution...
Walking and physical motion have also been steadily drained from the workplace. Even a low-impact job like research librarian no longer involves much reaching, bending and pulling tomes from the stacks--not when you can let your fingers do the walking on a keyboard. To put modern society's lack of movement in context, researchers at the University of Tennessee's Department of Health and Exercise Science studied a group of Old Order Amish, a religious sect that shuns cars and other modern conveniences. Using pedometers, the researchers found that the average Amish man took 18,425 steps...