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...anarchy which these terms imply immediately capture the anemic imaginations of minds exchanging ruts. IT to the audience (white collar San Francisco waiting in the Black Cat until girls go wild with wee hour jazz) is like slumming—the very method implies a kind of sacrilegious joy. IT to the Beat poets is a serious end, implying more than a playboy party—“freedom,” “escape...

Author: By John D. Leonard | Title: Free Beer and Poetry | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...does it? Whatever financial benefit you might derive from such a deal, the real joy from the dinner will be very low because each bite you take reminds you how much you are spending. This might be a good dieting approach, but not a way to enjoy spending your money. What this idea shows is that the way you pay has important psychological implications on how you view the money you are spending—what we call the “pain of paying”—even though on a rational level, we all know that...

Author: By Dan Ariely | Title: Irrational Economic Policies | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...When Pretty Woman came out in 1990, it was a smash, especially with women, and I hated it. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who ran the studio that made the film, explained what I was missing: "You don't understand shopping." SATC is similarly attuned to the shopping impulse, to the joy of having, and, even more, the thrill of coveting, Carrie knows Big is her soul mate because, in their new apartment, he magically produces what she most desires: extra closet space, which is the most elusive real estate in New York. Samantha practically has a crisis of conscience when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the City: Kinda Into You | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

KIDS AT PLAY It's not easy living in New York City when you're young and beautiful and so are all your friends. Don't believe it? Neither does Ryan McGinley, which is why his work is such an edgy and innocent joy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ryan McGinley | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...their leaders - sectarian warlords, corrupt tycoons and rebel clerics - creating more problems than solutions. So when almost all of the country's top men boarded planes on Friday for negotiations in Qatar to end the country's worst crisis since the end of the Lebanese civil war, there was joy in the land. "No one wants you; the population is living without you; your absence has made us comfortable," go the lyrics of The Leaders Left Lebanon, an instant hit song making the rounds on music television stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Agreement Buoys Hizballah | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

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