Word: pc
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...Demme's new film, Rachel Getting Married, is arguably an attempt on the part of the director to wend his way back to his roots. It's a small-scale comedy, written by Jenny Lumet (daughter of Sidney Lumet), in which a smugly PC family gathers to celebrate the wedding of their perfectly beautiful, perfectly balanced daughter, played by Rosemarie DeWitt. This is not just a wedding, however; it is also a sociopolitical statement, for the groom is a handsome black man, scion of a family that is far more conventional and bourgeois than the bride's family, and especially...
...impressionable tool of mass propaganda, but those recent Microsoft ads really got to me. While some folks hated the (short-lived) Bill Gates--Jerry Seinfeld series that kicked off the campaign, it cracked me up. It also got my attention, and the subsequent "I'm a PC" ads closed the deal: I've been thinking maybe it's time to buy a laptop...
...which one? This may sound crazy, but I haven't had a Windows PC since I wrote a cover story for this magazine nearly seven years ago about the first flat-panel Apple iMac. These days, I have enough Apple laptops, desktops, iPods and iPhones to make my house look like a deranged version of an Apple Store. Like most tech snobs, I continue to believe that compared with Windows, Apple's OS X operating system is easier to use, more stable and more fun for the average...
...during the past six months, I've been testing different Windows laptops--from huge ones with drive-in-theater-size screens and every conceivable feature to shrimpy "palm tops" that weigh less than a teacup Chihuahua--trying to find the right PC for me. I've concluded that HP's EliteBook 2530p comes pretty close to my ideal Windows machine...
...were a member of the PC when you were at Harvard. Do you ever come back to party with the guys still in the club...