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...wrote a TIME piece called "High and Low," about the devolution of the people's art. " Start with two fellows from Omaha, Neb., born 25 years apart. One was frail, comical-looking, yet he epitomized elegance in an era when glamour was the ability to steer a slim lady around a dance floor. The other man was bulky, brooding, with the artistic mission to break things: women's hearts, codes of behavior, the very notion of 'good acting.' In their distinct ways - grace vs. power, gentility vs. menace, tux vs. torn T shirt - Fred Astaire and Marlon Brando represented...
...culture war, sex won - real, insolent, dirty sex, not Ginger's kind. And class went to the back of the class. It sits there, ignored and aloof, waiting for the young to recognize it. Can't they see how sensational that slim figure back there looks in his top hat, white tie and tails, as an indulgent smile plays on his face and his feet describe elaborate designs on the schoolroom floor? Can't they see that Britney Spears is not dance - that Fred Astaire is? I hope, some day, the kids will get Astaire. He's too cool...
After the dotcom crash, the appetite for technological upheaval is slim. And that's just as well: most really big technologies, from the railroad to electricity, have made their impact gradually. "I don't think you ever sell a big paradigm shift," Meyer says. "It happens one application at a time...
...These women ate, but only enough to be slim and lean, and their diet consisted mostly of nonfat yogurt, pasta and diet drinks,” she said. “But women who want to have children won’t until they have the proper weight...
...really great opportunity and one we had really hoped would continue,” he said. “There’s kind of slim pickings...