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...rather hated the ratings system he created and sustained. Kirby Dick's documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated makes a good case for the prejudice the MPAA showed in favor of major-studio product and against the more adventurous indies. Francis Coppola once said that all of modern cinema, from art films to blockbusters, uses only about 5% of the medium's potential artistic vocabulary. We may need another revolution - not of content but of the means of distribution - to allow filmmakers to explore the other...
...working in a modern bureaucracy presents its own set of problems and challenges, which Gawande tackles in his writing...
...Professor of Business Administration Regina M. Abrami said that being a foreign woman in China can be disconcerting. “It’s like the third sex—man, woman, and foreign woman,” she said. Kirby challenged students on their general knowledge of modern-day China during the dinner. “If you were to take the poorest parts of China, what would be the number of cell phones per hundred people?” he asked. “Well, you said it was surprising, so 50,” replied Joyce...
...options but must still make sacrifices, she says.Goldin adds that the most important question facing women graduating from college today is whether they can find a job where it is possible to combine family and career.She says she has not yet formed an opinion on the conflicting ideas of modern feminism.“There’s the notion that you should celebrate difference, that women are actually better in various ways—the notion that we get from Sex and the City... women who wear five-inch heels and kick ass. Whereas second-generation feminists eschewed high...
...object or concept injected with new life through fresh components-"antique" chairs bolstered by new arms and legs, jeepneys revamped with transplanted motors and fresh paint jobs (a new MTV program, Pimp My Jeepney, is in the works), to ukay-ukay, or rummage-sale, vintage clothes stitched together with modern materials and prints. To me, Frankenstein explains the city's visual style as well as its strength and resilience. Improvisation and cheerfully making do characterize the Filipino attitude toward poverty...