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...Nader campaign in New Jersey, planning strategy, organizing support and mobilizing voters. After eight years of Clinton and moderate Democratic policies, it really did seem like Al Gore and George W. Bush were similar, and that the two political parties were colliding together ideologically at an ever more rapid rate. The fact that there was a presidential candidate with views I shared, namely Ralph Nader, only made the deal sweeter...
...everyday feature in American living rooms--will be reached in the near future. That's because the Asian consumer-electronics companies that dominate the flat-panel industry are building too many factories too fast. A glut is in the offing, and while prices have already been falling, more rapid declines are expected. Consulting firm iSuppli Corp. estimates that a 37-in. LCD TV that now retails for more than $4,000 will cost half as much in 2006 and is likely to be less than $1,000 by 2008. Plasma TVs will also see prices decline. A 42-in. plasma...
...anger came back into hip through the improvisational bebop style of jazz developed by saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. In response to the domestication of jazz by the swing bands of the 1930s, Parker developed a defiantly anti-commercial style, one with solos so rapid-fire they were too fast to dance to--and almost too fast to listen to. Real hipsters have always disdained the mass market...
...tradition of political cinéma vérité survived. Pennebaker, the former member of Drew’s team, directed the 1992 film The War Room, a character study of slogan-toting Democratic consultants James Carville and George Stephanopoulos and an analysis of the effects of their rapid response campaign strategy. The film plays this evening...
This leaning is exhibited in, among other things, the way in which illustrations are included. In Classic Fairy Tales, images from a number of illustrators, often of the same scene, are included in rapid succession. Some stories have two or three pages of pure image to highlight the history that went into them...