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...music website] Pitchfork and how its reviews can make or break bands, like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or the Black Kids. You argue that Pitchfork's influence pushed them into the limelight before they were ready and then they sort of fell apart. But aren't they just modern-day one-hit wonders? (Read about The Pitchfork 500.) Absolutely. There have always been these bands with one or two good songs, but at least they had a chance to get their record out and tour behind it. A lot of these bands are being elevated to star status...
Highlight Reel: 1. On the difficulty of explaining modern life to our prehistoric ancestors: "Compared with their easygoing clannish ways, our frenetic status seeking and product hunting would look bewildering indeed. Our society would seem noisy, perplexing and maybe psychotic ... All you have to do is sit in classrooms every day for 16 years to learn counterintuitive skills, and then work and commute 50 hours a week for 40 years in tedious jobs for amoral corporations, far away from relatives and friends, without any decent child care, sense of community, political empowerment or contact with nature...
...reason or argument but by a seat-of-the-pants, bottom-of-the-gut, irrational “feeling” about what is right. Or, in the completely opposite direction, the word “value” could also connote the equally unappealing hyper-rationality of modern economics, with its theories of value-added or real and nominal value...
...original archives building on Constitution Avenue, designed by John Russell Pope (who also created the Jefferson Memorial) was stuffed to the gills by the 1960s, forcing the archives to expand elsewhere. Most of the documents are now housed in College Park, MD, in a modern building of some 2 million cubic feet that can manage nearly 400 researchers at once. An electronic archive is in the works. Among the documents open for perusal by anyone aged 14 and up are military records, naturalization records for generations of immigrants, slave ship manifests and the Emancipation Proclamation, the Japanese surrender documents from...
...Theroux's hero worked from a cramped Chinese shophouse and muttered darkly about his tight-fisted boss while sweating in a crowded bus to meet his customers. By contrast Ng sits in Con-Lash's spacious, modern offices on the western edge of Singapore where he presides over a 40-person firm with an annual turnover of roughly $17 million. Apart from the toy models of various clipper ships nearby, his office could belong to a stockbroker or management consultant. Gone are the days when he scrambled aboard ships to haggle over the price of eggs or beer...