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...particularly Spanish themes but nevertheless universal. These images, fragmented and pained, startlingly convey the horrific bombing without resorting to realist or romantic terms. The painting’s stark absence of color is equally impressive. Painted solely in shades of black and white, the images employ symbolic and graphic punch while vibrating with intense expression. To a contemporary audience acquainted with black-and-white newspapers and film, the colorless palette additionally connotes objectivity to an otherwise emotional piece. As I stood impacted both by the scene’s complexity and passion, I did not question “Guernica?...
...this ambivalence and confusion that keeps the film startlingly modern and fresh today. Look at the scene with Walker running down a white hallway and see the similar scenes in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch-Drunk Love” and David O. Russell’s “I Heart Huckabees” as the lifts that they were...
...experiment is only three years old, and TIME got an exclusive look at how it is going from the managers who have learned not to be control freaks to the hourly workers who no longer have to punch the clock. Entire departments join at once, so that no single employee is left out and made to feel less dedicated. Thus far, nearly half the 3,500 employees at Best Buy's headquarters in Minneapolis, Minn., are part of the effort. Each group finds a different way to keep flexibility from turning into chaos. The public relations team got pagers...
...says. "That was hard." Blesener also had to learn how to stop treating his employees as if they were "unruly children," he says. The 44-year-old supervises 27 people who handle the company's extended-warranty services. His 20 hourly employees told him they were sick of punch- ing time clocks. "They felt it was almost inhumane," he says. Now these data-entry clerks and claims processors focus on how many forms they get through in a week, rather than when they do it. They still count their hours (Best Buy has to follow overtime rules), but they have...
...BEST PUNCH: "In its prime, [The Simpsons] was one of the greatest comedy shows of all time," says Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. "But it's not the show it once...