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...Another particularly noticeable element was the sound design: scene transitions were accompanied by lovely Spanish guitar pieces composed by Daniel Salas. Less lovely was the over-reliance on pre-recorded voices for crowds when having a few actors shout would have been just as effective. The famous “Beware the Ides of March” soothsayer was also a ghostly recorded voice in this production; accompanied by dimmed lights and a pause in the action, the effect was overly portentous...
...think you are naive to believe there are societies that have "no" teen delinquency and "no" teen-parent conflict. In your book you cite many pre-industrial and impoverished societies in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere that seem to exhibit low levels of teen pathologies-but so what? Many teens are also starving in these places. I'm sure they don't have time to be delinquent. A defining feature of modern society is that we don't need our young to work, so of course they will screw up more...
...obstacles. Handset technology, network bandwidth and even screen sizes differ among phone manufacturers, countries and carriers, so campaigns must be tailored to individual markets. "It is virtually impossible for a brand or its agency to make a cross-carrier media buy for mobile," says eMarketer senior analyst John du Pre Gauntt. "Brands, agencies and carriers will need to cooperate or risk losing out on one of the world's most prevalent interactive platforms...
...book's name and cover caught my eye simultaneously. V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival was illustrated with a similarly titled painting by Giorgio de Chirico, the Greek-Italian pre-Surrealist. I pored over the book, which describes the Trinidadian Nobel laureate's own coming to terms with living in southern England, a few miles from where I had grown up. Enthused and enthralled, I decided I wanted the painting...
...Clinton's disastrous effort to transform the system in her husband's first term nearly cost him the presidency. After that, politicians pretty much stopped talking about the subject except to offer marginal and politically unassailable fixes, like covering more children or requiring insurance companies to accept people with pre-existing health conditions...