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...year in which intellectually devoid, flashy crowd pleasers (like 300 and Transformers) and crude, idiotic, supposed comedies (like Wild Hogs and Rush Hour 3) were among the highest-grossing films, how can Corliss justify suggesting that the awards go to more popular films? Discounting Ratatouille, you have to scroll way down the rankings to find anything that warrants consideration?like Charlie Wilson's War, No Country for Old Men and Juno. Moneymaking could be considered an art and a science, but I doubt that's what is meant by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Christopher Bruno, RAHWAY...
...spring of 1951 in New York City, Jack Kerouac sat down to type his magnum opus, On the Road, onto 10 rolls of architectural tracing paper taped together to create the most famous scroll in secular literary history. Now the scroll travels back to New York for the 50th anniversary of On the Road's first printing...
...Isaac Gewirtz, who curated the show and wrote an accompanying book, Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road. "But he was a first-rate writer, and my hope is that a new generation will be taken by the rigor of his mind." It's all there in the scroll...
...reviewer, chances are you won't even bother to look at the manual. Translucent, jewel-like, artfully phrased dialogue boxes come and go on cue. Window borders bounce and flex just slightly to cue the user where and how you're supposed to drop and drag and scroll them. When you switch the phone to "airplane mode" (no electronic transmissions, for use on planes) a tasteful little orange airplane slides into the menu bar, then zooms away when you switch out again. (This was so pleasurable that I repeatedly entered airplane mode while using the iPhone, even though I wasn...
...centuries after its 1.0 release, the book is a surprisingly robust piece of information technology. Sure, its memory is relatively tiny--one novel adds up to less than a megabyte. But it doesn't need charging, and it never crashes. Its interface is rapidly and intuitively navigable. The scroll never stood a chance...