Word: instantness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Your reward for sitting through the logorrheic stretches of the movie is, first, a car crash - which, in the manner of Hong Kong action films, is shown as an instant replay, from four views - and then a long car chase. Here's the set-up: On a film shoot in Tennessee, a stuntwoman (played by Zoe Bell, who was Uma Thurman's double on Kill Bill) hears that 1970 Dodge Challenger, just like the one in Vanishing Point, is for sale. She and her girlfriends visit the peckerwood who has the car, and three of them take...
Amaker carries a 177-138 career record, and would bring instant credibility to a Harvard program that has never won the Ivy League title and that has been to the NCAA tournament just once...
...Other Desperate Situations,” the debut collection of comedic shorts by Simon Rich ’06–’07. From the second-grader who realizes that the Silent Game “isn’t actually fun” to an instant-messaging teenage girl whose “innards R swarming w/2morous growths,” Rich’s young characters expose absurdity with the regrettable wisdom of adulthood.“Ant Farm” is mostly gloomy and almost always hilarious in its take on the absurd, whether that?...
...early front runner for the title of the "YouTube of 2007" is a service called Twitter. Twitter enables you to broadcast to the world at large, via the Web or phone or instant message, tiny snippets of personal information: what you're doing, what you're about to do, what you just did, what your cat just did and so on. Twitter does the Internet equivalent of splitting the atom. It creates a unit of content even smaller and more trivial than the individual blog entry. Expect the response to be suitably explosive...
Harvard students are notorious for their overly packed schedules, but who isn’t busy these days? The middle school student squeezes in homework between a day of classes, an evening of extracurriculars, and a night of quality instant messaging. The young adult population works 9 to 7, returning home just in time for “Desperate Housewives” or “24” before turning in to wake up for the gym the next morning. And “senior citizen” is now synonymous with “overachiever...