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...greatest signs of recent decline in the library, according to Carpenter, is the popularity of “access by ownership,” which has allowed libraries short on funding to justify small or static permanent collections by claiming access to a larger collection through sharing with other libraries...
...contrasted the dynamic gender roles played by women over the past few decades with the static conceptions of masculinity...
Neil Armstrong meant to say "That's one small step for a man," adapting the phrase from a children's playground game. Instead, because of intense radio static, Mission Control in Houston--and the rest of mankind--heard, "That's one small step for ... man, one giant leap for mankind," which became one of the most famous sentences of the 20th century. If the audio failed, the images were indelible, as a camera mounted on the base of the lunar-landing vehicle beamed back the otherworldly milestone. Ohio-born Armstrong, then 38, had become the first earthling on the moon...
Green shoots his groping lovers in the art-film style--long takes, static frame--but his tone isn't at all minimalist; it's achingly, breathtakingly romantic, like the old Hollywood love stories his kids have never seen. (The movie opens with a scene that reasserts the primacy of the first kiss as rite of passage into emotional turbulence.) Around the main couple he devises a constellation of edgy pals and anxious parents; he understands there's no girl so possessive as a guy's jealous buddy, no woman so ruefully knowing as a Don Juan's mom. These glances...
...with the event itself; this week, we face the haunting legacy of Sept. 11 in the form of a new war and new terrorist threats to New York. Such a remarkable situation cannot possibly be contained neatly within a traditional package of tame buildings or a static memorial...