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...first two Mickey shorts drew no attention, but then came Steamboat Willie, the first animation to feature synchronized music and sound effects, hit the screen. The film premiered in New York on Nov. 18, 1928 and was an instant hit. A series of Mickey Mouse shorts appeared within a matter of months - including Plane Crazy, a short that predated Steamboat Willie in which Mickey plays a rodent Charles Lindbergh. The mouse was a national fad by the end of the year, and it wasn't long before the real genius of Walt Disney kicked in: marketing. Walt quickly started...
...died last year at 78, made immense abstract wall drawings that he conceived but almost never executed himself. His method was to devise a set of instructions - for instance, draw 10,000 ten-inch lines, covering the wall evenly - that could be carried out by assistants or, for that matter, by anyone. Often he never even saw the finished work, much less touched...
...month ago, when the U.S. financial system was melting down, the urgency of the crisis compressed the political and ideological distances between America's top economic players, allowing Congress to pass a massive rescue bill in a matter of days. Now that the most acute phase of the crisis appears to have passed, those natural divisions are once again opening...
...when they heard the news. For a few different reasons—pitch troubles, difficulties with microphones—it never got off the ground. But here’s what the song was supposed to say: Every Presidential assassination creates deep national wounds. It doesn’t matter how loved or loathed the President is. When a country puts somebody in office and then kills him, some part of the nation’s machinery snaps. Something breaks. And maybe that’s why the fear jumped up inside me watching Obama take the stage on election...
...sports writer, I myself am guilty of the near-necessary evil of worshipping the statistics gods. Too often is a story, or our attention for that matter, centered on numbers and other easily recognizable heuristics for information intake. Unfortunately, whether writing a story or leafing through the paper, it’s all too easy to cling to glamorized, surface level details rather than dedicate the time to delve into the nitty-gritty. Although essential to the team, these roles take time to appreciate and too often receive less attention than deserved from non-affiliates of the team. I dedicate...