Word: mulligans
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...love the pre-Raphaelites!" gushes Jenny (Carey Mulligan), with the unself-conscious exuberance of a bright 16-year-old. The star pupil at an élite London girls' school, Jenny has her eyes on Oxford, but can't help giving a longing glance at the world of luxe, of fine art and good restaurants, that she is mad to enter. Admission to the dolce vita is the apple held out by her new friend David (Peter Sarsgaard), a suave businessman twice her age. He, in turn, is seduced by Jenny's intellectual brio and, for all her poise, innocence. With...
...application that some observers see as a potential challenger to Apple's own iTunes music player, which iPhone owners use to listen to their downloaded tunes. "Apple has made it clear in the past that iPhone apps should enhance the experience, not compete with its core functionality," says Mark Mulligan, a London-based analyst with Forrester Research...
That Spotify is going ahead with its plan to launch the application before the official O.K. from Apple is either a sign of supreme confidence or savvy publicity. "Spotify are masters of utilizing the Web to drive buzz and consumer interest," says analyst Mulligan. If the company does get the nod from Apple, it will be just the first step in the company's quest to get the world streaming. There's also a Google-based application for non-Apple phones in prototype and a plan to launch the regular Web-based application in the U.S. before...
...Sharkey, CEO of U.K. Music, an organization representing the interests of the commercial music industry (and a former pop singer himself), reckons that the success of the anti-copyright movement among young voters "sends a message that we need to think about how we are approaching the issue." Mark Mulligan, an analyst at technology-research company Forrester, agrees. "The problem with looking to legislation to help meet business ends is that the results are often unfavorable to all affected business parties," he says. "Legislation simply cannot move quickly enough to keep up with the evolution of peer-to-peer technology...
...this, and fix it we will," the narrator intones over footage of people streaming out of public transport, a runner with a prosthetic leg, a hockey player felled in the agony of defeat. Finally the spot urges viewers to just get past it - essentially calling a massive corporate mulligan - and exits with ousted-reality-TV-contestant-style defiance: "The only chapter we're focused on is Chapter 1." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...