Word: inertias
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...trying to rationalize its existence," says Drew Neisser, CEO of Renegade Marketing Group, a new media advertising firm in New York City. "If it weren't for IM-ing and inertia, it would probably be in even deeper trouble." The question facing AOL, he says, is whether the Web needs another general aggregator or whether the market is moving toward more specialized sites like YouTube and MySpace...
...flat little voice and his earnest manner, he's generally been a very welcome presence in the movies. He was especially good as Jackie Chan's co-star in Shanghai Noon and Knights , and he was excellent in The Wedding Crashers last year, where he energetically overcame his basic inertia, in part because the script was well developed nonsense and his constantly scheming co-star, Vince Vaughn, wouldn't let him lie down for long...
...recruiter had not told any lies. He offered her a way to make some money for college, so that, when this hitch was over, she could become the kindergarten teacher she wanted to be. And he offered a way to escape the inertia of the West Virginia hills, a place so beautiful that a young person can forget, sometimes until she is very old, that she is standing still. In the process, she would serve her country, something people in her part of America still say without worrying that someone will roll his eyes...
...Like Water for Chocolate, The Postman and their ilk gave viewers the warm fuzzies. They owed more to traditional Hollywood romantic dramas than to the trailblazing experiments of Bergman, Godard and Antonioni. As for the foreign films that critics championed, these tended to be minimalist to the point of inertia: static-camera portraits of glum people doing not very much...
...professors—including a few I’ve had—engage with their undergraduates regularly, many students’ only real opportunity to interact with faculty is at the faculty dinner each semester. To be fair, some professors are truly struggling under the weight of cultural inertia separating them from undergraduates. But others are unfortunately broadening this chasm, tacitly or otherwise. Former Dean Lewis wrote in his 2002 memo that “the problem is with the faculty and their attitude towards students, especially the faculty in certain departments.” And the economics department?...