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...audience of more than 11 million (not counting viewers of its repeat episodes), though only a third of American TVs (about 38 million) even have HBO. Not only will ordinary folks watch a show that demands constant attention, resists easy closure, relies on subtext and is rich with metaphor--they will pay near usurious subscription fees for it. In one new episode, Tony sees squirrels eating the feed he left out for ducks in his backyard. The scene harks back to the 1999 pilot, in which a family of ducks landed in the Soprano pool, leading to Tony's first...
...Boomers will not grow old gracefully," says Baird, 49, who should know. "Botox will be huge." In this case, Botox--the wrinkle-smoothing injection--is a metaphor for all kinds of vanity and health products and services that Baird says boomers will want in order to look young and live young into their 70s. These range from organic food and fresh juices to alternative medicines and health spas. Baird's firm owns Equinox Fitness Clubs, Elizabeth Arden Salons Holdings and the Grand Expeditions travel company and has interests in weight control, antiaging therapies and adult education. Healthy living, he estimates...
This family metaphor may sound bizarre to most Americans. For all our historical ties of heritage and culture with Britain, most of us find little more in com mon with Britain than with any other nation in Europe, aside from language. But the British still do feel close in a more general sense, and although I do not claim to fully understand the phenomenon, I suspect it owes something to the sheer volume of Ame rican mass media and culture Britain imports. South Park and Oprah dominate television, Ja Rule gets more radio play than Oasis, and Starbucks and McDonald?...
...most famous book, The Myth of Mental Illness, was published in 1961. As the Atlantic Monthly said, the book argued "that both our uses of the term 'mental illness' and the activities of the psychiatric profession are often scientifically untenable and morally indefensible." Szasz views mental illness as a metaphor for disturbing and disruptive behaviors, which he says arise from our circumstances and personality--and from our own choices. Until there is incontrovertible proof that, say, paranoid personality disorder is caused by an actual lesion in the brain, Szasz will argue such a label is a mere characterization...
...talking, they look at me." The theatrical Frenchman admits he sometimes edits Troussier's monologues so the coach doesn't "appear as if he is uneducated. Like the other day, he started talking about the players being like Mount Fuji, a volcano about to erupt or something ... the metaphor made no sense. So I just left that part out." No harm, no foul. "If I were President Bush's interpreter and I was doing this, it would be catastrophic," Dabadie says, "but this is sports. Pfft." Now that Japan is out of the Cup, Dabadie is considering a career...