Word: paradoxers
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...headbangers made for robots. “People, You Can Confuse” is brilliantly oppressive, sounding like circuits in cardiac arrest—the album’s delirious peak. Nicola’s deadpan singing is the crux’s of Adult.’s paradox, at once a riveting call to arms and a signifier of times long passed. —Ryan...
...true. Last October, I published an op-ed in the Financial Times supporting the use of force to prevent Saddam Hussein’s possession of weapons of mass destruction if it were done multilaterally. This is consistent with my book The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone. My view has not changed...
There’s a strange paradox in being both an MTV junkie and a college student with better things to do than sit at home and watch TV. While I’m admittedly obsessed with MTV—MTV.com is right after the New York Times website on my internet bookmarks—ask me if I watch MTV at school, and I’d have to admit that I don’t even know the channel designation in Cambridge. Herein lies MTV’s marketing dilemma: college students need a damn good reason...
...hour later than I usually arrive at TIME. I was taken into the back room, where there were racks of clothes, stacks of invoices and, surprisingly, a box of Yankee Doodles on top of the microwave. I was handed a five-page booklet on the brand philosophy, which is "paradox." Nowhere in the five pages does it mention that trying to sell clothes while being mean to customers is a paradox, but I wrote that...
...think the deal is that Stella McCartney is young and hippie-ish and laid back, and she gets the staff to be that way too, though I'm not entirely sure how this is accomplished by a five-page booklet on paradox. But the friendliness of the staff makes the customers feel unguarded, more relaxed and more likely to open their wallets. Other stores are stuck in a cycle of cruelty, like some horrible dysfunctional marriage. Speaking of which, I inadvertently mentioned the 60%-off sale to my wife. Three days and $600 later, I became the worst-paid sales...