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...Netflix mail-order rental service is both useful and annoying. It is also addictive. I speak as a four-at-a-time subscriber who carefully manages and updates his queue of titles, closely monitors their return to the Netflix depot and waits anxiously for the postman to bring the next stash. Here, based on five months of obsessive use, of pleasure and frustration in roughly equal amounts, are five ways to improve the effectiveness of America's favorite online movie provider. (Read Richard's final analysis: "Why Netflix Stinks...
...establish Motown Records. The two had become friends years earlier and Robinson, who was the lead singer of a band called The Miracles, produced, wrote, and sang several of Motown's most memorable hits - including the labels' first smash song, "Shop Around" in 1960. A year later, "Please Mr. Postman," by The Marvelettes, was the label's first No. 1 song. It would not be the last...
Paperless Post, “interactive stationary for a modern world,” brings together the refinement of paper invitations (remember those...come in an envelope? Pretty cursive writing? Delivered by a postman? No?) and the efficiency of online communication. With the ability to choose everything from themes to fonts and paper type, users can indulge in their creative sides, adding garlands, satin-esque ribbons, and other ornamentation as they please...
...some twilit city, the curtain goes up on one of his shows. On his tempestuous, mostly male Swan Lake, the longest-running dance production in London's history and a triple Tony Award winner on Broadway. On The Car Man, his steamy spot-welding of Carmen and The Postman Always Rings Twice. On his bittersweet Nutcracker or his funny, touching Edward Scissorhands...
...seemed to display an earnest, almost haunted demeanor on court, it perhaps reflected her checkered childhood growing up in the pretty Ardennes village of Marloie. She lost her mother to cancer when she was just 12; her father, José, had to bring up his children on a postman's salary...