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...rising prominence of Future Systems is one more sign of the remarkable shift in architectural taste over the past decade. One of these days someone will write a revisionist history of 20th century architecture that will trace the survival of a line. I don't mean a bloodline. I mean an actual line, a ribboning, curving one with sources in plant life and cellular forms and the swells and inlets of the human body. It was that undulating line that Modernism almost did away with when it swept into power in the middle of the 20th century, stomping its robot...
...seeing a fundamental shift in the way people think about the things they buy," says Chris Sanderson, co-founder of the Future Laboratory, an international brand strategy and trend-forecasting consultancy whose clients include American Express, Morgan Stanley and Veuve Clicquot, "which is taking them out of a period of bling-or-bust spending and into a more reflective and concerned phase of consumption. It's no longer about relaying how fabulous or wealthy or 'arrived' we are. It's not just austerity as an aesthetic. It's as a way of life...
...from the soft-spoken, muesli movements of the past, the migration toward austerity has the deep rumblings of a widespread shift in thought, complete with a sense of mission and hope last felt in the 1960s: motivated, demographically powerful twentysomethings, who came of age shopping at Apple and Whole Foods Market and driving a Prius, expect the companies behind their brands to be nothing less than responsible. Aware thirtysomethings, who are cash rich and credit savvy, are determined to vote with their dollars. And consumers in general, according to a recent Future Laboratory report, "are becoming ... civically motivated in their...
...Wiesler’s, the stoicism of the Stasi agent is gradually edged away through his close contact with Dreyman’s life. The elegant internal conflict that Wiesler experiences is the predominant struggle in the film, as what he stands for begins to crumble and his loyalties shift from the GDR to the greater concerns of the human condition. Along with Mühe’s moving display of the breakdown of tradition, “The Lives of Others” offers a number of other talented actors that display some unforgettable moments during the film...
...Lieberman says leaving the Democratic Party is a "very remote possibility." But even that slight ambiguity - and all his cross-aisle flirtation - has proved more than enough to position Lieberman as the Senate's one-man tipping point. If he were to jump ship, the ensuing shift of power to Republicans would scramble the politics of the war in Iraq, undercut the Democrats' national agenda and potentially weaken their hopes for the White House in 2008. Those stakes are high enough to give Lieberman leverage with both parties no matter how slim the chance of his crossing the aisle. Which...