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...consumer—including Cape Cod residents—must be adjusted to a modern and earth-preservation based approach, and these large-scale projects will help to draw attention to environmental issues. Hopefully, they will also expedite the process of changing individuals’ approaches to energy. The pettiest of all of the complaints about the Cape Wind project is that some of the ocean views that Cape Cod has to offer will be tainted by this wind farm. While the shores and beaches of Cape Cod are some of the most beautiful the state boasts, informed citizens must...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Winds of Change | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...harder to sell unpopular reforms. "The rise of nationalism in Turkey has a lot to do with Turkey's internal dynamics, but it is being compounded by the E.U.'s attitude," says Hakan Altinay, head of the Open Society Institute in Turkey. "We are being exposed to the pettiest side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Continental Divide | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

...decay of mere pigment. The fascination of La Grande Jatte is not just a matter of color and light. It lies in Seurat?s endlessly absorbing and ambiguous notion - to show modern men and women bearing the signs of their daily life into eternity, so that even their pettiest, most comical vanities become part of something stately and immemorial. His cigar, her monkey - no less than the Sphinx, they belong to the ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecting the Dots | 9/1/2004 | See Source »

...Terminator 4." But Godard's films are worth seeing for his encyclopedic wit, the glamour of his imagery, the doggedness of a man who won't give up on modernism. His crabby films are, in truth, breathlessly romantic--because he keeps searching for first principles in the pettiest human affairs. Godard gazes at the intimate and finds the infinite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FOR EVER GODARD | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...lies and celluloid." Both newly restored after long being out of theatrical circulation, ' the releases "are worth seeing for his encyclopedic wit, the glamour of his imagery, and the doggedness of a man who won?t give up on modernism. Godard keeps searching for first principles in the pettiest human affairs. Godard gazes at the intimate and finds the infinite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This just in: | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

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