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...still surprising to me, however, this combination of Orwell and WALL-E that has humans watching one another through computer screens and socializing in quasi-isolation. Neill says Facebook has brought her closer to her already close friends, whom she has little time to see because of kids and work. "I know more about them now than I did when I was in regular contact with them," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Facebook Replace Face Time or Enhance It? | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

...song, "Fork in the Road," is allegedly the title track from a forthcoming album, and its home-movie-quality video features Young wearing headphones plugged into an apple (oh, he is so clever) and moving around in quasi-dance motions like an aging hippie rocking out to the same classic jam he's been listening to for the past four decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Young's Bailout Song | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...daughter. The speech is boilerplate sentiment, which the actor - who says he reworked it to reflect his own life - elevates to a passion as sweet as it is forlorn. (The speech is up there with the one Jean-Claude Van Damme, another comeback kid of 2008, gives in his quasi-autobiographical JCVD.) If Rourke had to punish himself to look the part of a battered fighter so he could slip inside Randy's wounded innocence, then, man, it was worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke's Comeback Fight | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...jeans. This Halloween, I spent two successfully inebriated hours trying to take a friend’s shirt off—not because I wanted to seduce him, but because I just really disliked the way it fit. Perhaps most disastrously, I once made out with the quasi-love interest of my best friend, leading to my removal from her gchat, her phone, and her heart for several lonely weeks...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 21! Here Nan Comes! | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...What has it been like for you in becoming so famous? I don't feel I am. It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all. I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. I feel blessed that I can still do those things without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khaled Hosseini | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

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