Word: logicality
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...does what he does, or why he is so ambitious. There’s the implication from the childhood scenes that Jung never wants to have to work as hard for as little as his dad, but other than that, the film seems to suggest that the inevitable logic of capitalism works this way, that somehow the very fact of being American causes Jung to be entrepreneurially ambitious, to spot an opportunity to make money. But why Jung and not anyone else? Why is he always reaching for more when he doesn’t seem...
...That logic, as I've tried hopelessly to explain, is patently absurd. While it might have been understandable back in the early '90s, when Duke won two consecutive national championships, it really doesn't hold water these days. Sure, the pairing of senior Shane Battier and sophomore Jason Williams has taken college basketball by storm. But these guys work unbelievably hard - and their intelligence on the court belies any charges of complacency. Listen to or read any interview, and you'll find this Duke squad is unfailingly humble, a quality that's getting rare among today's college players...
...many of the 6,000 members, we wonder, voted for Marcia Gay Harden as Best Supporting Actress? In "Pollock," a film that has earned all of $3 million at the box office, she played Jackson Pollock's nattering, long-suffering wife Lee Krasner. In retrospect, and by the curious logic pertaining to Oscar, the award made sense. The Academy loves actresses whose roles demand they abase themselves in obscure accents. An underdog role can guarantee a victory in an election when most of the voters are actors, and in a time when serious acting is considered a mix of attitude...
...scheduling logic behind this week's rerun is worth mentioning. March Madness is a hallowed tradition at CBS, and good demographics to boot - a pre-emption was out of the question. But if you're wondering why CBS, after pulling off last Wednesday's Week 8 with its ratings unruffled, didn't just run its Week 9 show Wednesday night, I've got two words for you: May sweeps. May sweeps is two weeks long, and the two final episodes of "Survivor 2" will do very big business. But 16 weeks just weren't enough to get "Survivor 2" from...
...heart attacks or the bypass operations afterward that for some reason often leave the patient prone to depression? It seems an odd emotional logic to become depressed after having been given new piping and a new lease on life. Some lore has it that bypass people are a little crazier than most, that the "cabbage" (coronary-artery bypass) activates a wild hair. I am beginning to think there's truth in the theory that bypass surgery damages the memory. Mine was once photographic. Now I have to work harder sometimes to fetch a name. The other day, for some reason...