Word: lightness
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...told better by someone who has really lived it like I lived Vietnam. But I'm interested in the politics of what happened behind it. That fascinates me. Right now the surge - it resembles a lot of the Vietnam stuff because we always heard that there was a light at the end of the tunnel. That was a very consistent quote: "It's changing, it's getting better, [another] six months, another 100,000 troops." We heard that again and again and I think any Vietnam veteran or person of my age from that era will tell you that...
...experiment, those who had been asked to falsely claim that a boring task--placing spools on a tray, for instance--was fun were later found to have persuaded themselves that the task really was fun. They had crossed over from hypocrisy to something more pathetic: self-deception. In this light, getting married, having kids and advancing conservatism looks more like a heartfelt, doomed effort to change sexuality than a hypocritical ploy...
...Survivor remains a constantly surprising and enthralling game, both socially and physically. Even after seven years, there's no clear single best way to win the political game: Is it better to be liked or respected, a master athlete or a master strategist? Whether or not it sheds any light on how people behave in real society, it remains the most engrossing example of how people really behave in the fake society of a high-pressure TV contest...
...just because it was about terrorism. With its breathless real-time format and multiscreens, 24 reflects the same information-overload media culture that gave us the zipper and screens within screens on cable news. The computers work a little too well, the Los Angeles traffic is suspiciously light, and Jack Bauer never has to take a leak, but Kiefer Sutherland gives Jack psychological weight in the most outlandish situations, racing against a ticking clock that tolls...
Here's a mental exercise for you: picture a tropical paradise lost in an endless expanse of cerulean ocean. Glossy palm fronds twist gently in the temperate wind, as islanders harvest coconuts along the immaculate powder-white beaches. Leathery sea turtles bob lazily off shore and the light cacophony of birdsong accents the ambient sound of wind and waves...