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...people expressing it. Politicians and entertainers, after all, succeed by knowing our hearts and minds. We are, in a real way, implicated in their achievement and their disgrace. So you'd think this explosion of public ugliness might spur some kind of national soul searching. Did we somehow encourage their bigotry, by ignoring softer forms of it in our pop culture? Did they think on some level, conscious or not, that they spoke for us? Were they right...
...building and still have it feel like a place?--working with fog did nothing to contradict Diller and Scofidio's image as thinkers in no hurry to operate with more solid materials. So it's a sign of significant clients' openness to new ideas that the pair have somehow joined the ranks of sought-after, real-world architects, the kind who work with poured concrete and get major commissions. In the past few years their firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro--they brought in Charles Renfro as full partner two years ago--has been chosen to redesign large parts of the glamorous...
...soft-headed. So critics will see a horror film with extreme violence, or (less frequently) an erotic film with extreme sex, and accept these as genre conventions, whether or not they're grossed out or aroused. But a movie that tries to make them feel is somehow pandering to their basest or noblest emotions and, as they see it, deserves a spanking from any smart reviewer. These days, nothing is as easy to deride as dead-serious romance...
...government isn't providing you with data about hunger?" It was easy to suspect a conspiracy, that someone in the government who didn't like the fact that every year for the last five the hunger statistics had gotten worse had pushed the USDA to dilute the bad news somehow. (Some Democrats suggested that the report was delayed until after the election; the department responded that the release schedule has always been a bit erratic and this year's was set months ago.) But behind the predictable fight was a practical challenge: How should we talk about hunger in America...
...diamond engagement ring become so popular because it's a symbol of value? Does a man give it to a woman to show how much he's willing to spend on her, and that somehow is a demonstration of his love? What if, through some freakish market devaluation, diamonds suddenly cost a tenth of what they do now - and everyone wore huge rocks for all occasions... would you still want one? -Rebecca...