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...normal has moved. "If we'd taken this study in 1850, we'd all be an 8 or a 9," says Pinsky. "The prevailing wisdom is that there's a steady trend toward narcissism over the past 150 years." In their new book, The Narcissism Epidemic, psychology professors Jean Twenge and W. Keith Campbell compare the growing psychological condition to obesity. The average college student's score has gone up 20% since 1983, and scores in the dangerous over-20 range have nearly doubled. "No one ever talks about how much they like history on MySpace. They talk about...
Jarre once said that in the flush of his career, he took so many assignments because he had three ex-wives and a lot of alimony to pay. The first of his marriages produced a son, Jean-Michel Jarre, a renowned composer of electronic music. But it is Papa Maurice's "Lara's Theme" from Zhivago moviegoers recall whenever they think of snow, sleds and the ache of lost love...
...Born in Lyon in 1924, Jarre was no child prodigy; he was in his late teens before he decided to study music. In Paris after the war he hooked up with two exceptional impresarios of French theater: Jean-Louis Barrault and Jean Vilar. For Vilar he wrote incidental music for modern readings of classical plays. In 1951, Georges Franju, a director of spare, uncompromising documentaries, hired Jarre to score his film essay on wounded veterans, the 1951 Hôtel des Invalides. In the next dozen years they would collaborate on two more shorts and five sepulchral features, including Head...
...another 36 in the '70s, 46 in the '80s. He told one sympathetic critic, Jon Burlingame of Variety, that he took on so many assignments because he had a bunch of ex-wives (three) and owed them all alimony. The first of these marriages begat a son, Jean-Michel, who made his own name as a composer of electronic music and producer of gargantuan sound-and-light shows, one of which drew 3.5 million people to celebrate the 850th anniversary of the city of Moscow in 1997. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...anyone who's ever been around a disruptive child knows, refusing to give the kid attention is often the best way of shutting the troublesome tot up. Perhaps that's a tactic members of the European Parliament regret not using with France's extreme right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen this week...