Word: pops
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...Liverpool. In a trilogy of short films in the early '80s, and in the features Distant Voices, Still Lives (1987) and The Long Day Closes (1992), he wove a tapestry of family life, of a violent father and gentle mother, an entire neighborhood that soldiered through hard times singing pop songs at the local pub. This was nostalgia with the blinkers off, an epic saga in miniature. The films documented their time and place with an artistic clarity so acute as to be both unbearable and endearing. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...Anyone so deeply indebted to his youth will naturally be suspicious of change. In the '60s, the Beatles made Liverpool the world's pop-cultural Mecca, yet Davies sees "John, Paul, George and Ringo: as "not so much a musical phenomenon, more like a firm of provincial solicitors." The smooth crooners of the previous decade quickly faded, "the witty lyric and the well-crafted love song seeming as antiquated as antimacassars or curling tongs." As an appraiser of public buildings he is no less a conservative than Prince Charles. Davies rails against the New Brutalism, a style that incarcerated generations...
Need to relax after finishing that paper? How about an expert spa treatment that doesn’t put stress on your wallet? G-Spa’s got your back. “Quickie” massages are 25 bucks a pop, and they also provide manicures for those overworked typing fingers. http://www.newbury-st.com/Boston/13/1164/Hair_salons/G_Spa_ 35 Newbury Street, Boston...
...want to know what's going on in the U.S. housing market, chances are you follow the Case-Shiller index. Robert Shiller, the Yale University economist who helped create the home-price gauge, was something of a pop economist even before the real estate meltdown-a book published in 2000 warning about the coming crash in stocks made him a rock star of the last bubble, too. His latest book, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters For Global Capitalism , was written with University of California, Berkeley economist George Akerlof. Shiller spoke with TIME...
...predictive power of Google's system is relatively imprecise, since it depends solely on a large number of people getting sick and hitting their computers. That's why the H1N1 cases did not pop up as anything unusual in late March and early April. Even today, with more than 400 cases of H1N1 now confirmed in 38 U.S. states, the caseload is too small to register on Google's radar. It would take thousands, not hundreds, of likely infected people searching for help to distinguish a growing trend from the noise of queries in Google's database...