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...forgettable, cotton-candy movies, and yet give Budd Schulberg, an important literary figure, a scant few lines [Aug. 24]. It makes me wonder if your arts editors are about 14 years old. Apart from his novel What Makes Sammy Run?, Schulberg was around in an important era of major literary figures and was a colleague of F. Scott Fitzgerald on movie scripts about which he wrote a novel, The Disenchanted. Trevor Hoyle, NEWHEY, ENGLAND...
...high-end electronics from Sony and Panasonic. Japan can no longer expect economic growth to be generated almost exclusively by a handful of powerful multinational manufacturers. Increased domestic consumption as well as investment in small- and medium-sized enterprises are needed to help drive economic growth. This will require major change, including regulatory reform that encourages the formation of small businesses that in most countries are the biggest generators of new jobs...
...party scenes, and its key cultural figures, from the late Nobel Prize - winning author Patrick White to actress Cate Blanchett. From Sept. 19-25, he will showcase 16 prints of Sydney gay life at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in northern China's Shanxi province, while next February a major new work, My Generation, commissioned by Australia's National Portrait Gallery and based on the Sydney art scene of the 1970s and '80s, will be unveiled as part of Sydney's Mardi Gras. (See pictures of the gay rights movement...
...channel undue public attention onto the president’s otherwise normal wife. But I would sound even crazier if I said that I have seen all these pictures without having been forced to do so against my will. Call me crazy, but it seems clear that many major media organizations are doing their part to cast Michelle Obama in a certain mold, one into which she shouldn’t necessarily have to fit—the fashion maven and the cultural arbiter, the trendsetter and the globetrotter, the American queen and world icon...
...first step,” said Ingrid G. Akerlind ’10 of the fair. “It’s definitely more personal than e-recruiting.” The ongoing effort to diversify the fair has been aided in recent years by the absence of major banks like Goldman Sachs, and the now defunct Lehman Brothers. A sea of bodies, clad in dress-for-success garb navigated the five industry “neighborhoods,” including representatives from “science and tech,” “marketing, media, retail...