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...attention span of about seven minutes. Besides, he didn't like delving too deeply into himself. He called that activity "pearl diving," and it upset and scared him. "Actors have to observe," he once said, "and I enjoy that part of it. They have to know how much spit you have in your mouth and where the weight of your elbows is. I could sit all day in the Optimo Cigar Store on Broadway [which he often did] and just watch the people...
...late 2002, Melbourne's Federation Square didn't so much give birth to a new art gallery and moving-image museum as spit them out from a computer. A labyrinth of splintered steel, sandstone and glass, with more detours than a PlayStation game, for many the $A450-million complex represented everything they disliked about contemporary culture: an amorphous mass of postmodernism, with no discernable beginning or end. Here was a building that seemed to suffer from eternal attention deficit disorder...
...underlying problem is a familiar one in India's crowded business capital: a lack of space. Thousands of migrants join Bombay's population of 14 million every week, but built on a narrow spit of land between marshlands and the sea, the city has nowhere to grow. As many as 12,000 of Bombay's poor now live in slums inside the wildlife park in the north of the city, and the normally shy leopards, for whom food is often scarce, are developing a taste for people...
...mention the equally alluring trap of résumé building. Can you believe that there’s a Consulting Club on campus? I almost spit out my spaghetti when I heard some folks talking about it at the dinner table the other day. Look, I’ve got a lot of friends who are neophyte consultants, and more power to them—they’re good people and they’re going to be doing good things for the economy come September. But let’s keep the McKinsey thing a post-college...
...Punisher (wife and kids dead), or Hellboy (born a demon), or Spider-Man (secretly a nerd). Look at Batman: his parents were killed in front of him, and he dresses like a Cure fan. Now look at the big blue Boy Scout, with his cleft chin and his spit curl. He's just not cool...