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...actor is untalented, sometimes it’s because of bad directing and sometimes it’s because the actor and director are trying to emphasize a theme or heighten the work’s atmosphere. But not many actors can build a compelling character out of such stuff; for every Tobey Maguire that succeeds, there are fifty Keanu Reeveses that fail...
...millions of people vying for your attention to listen to their music. In the past, it was a lot harder to be in a band, make a CD and release it to the public. Now, it’s quite easy, so the whole market is saturated with this stuff, and it’s hard as a listener to find your way through that to the good stuff...
...these words aren’t pseudo-academic jargon for “I should be able to turn up my music because I like it.” (Ideally, then, I’d live alone in a warehouse.) The fact is that most of this stuff comes from club and rave culture, where booming soundsystems are the norm. Below a certain volume threshold, it loses effect—thus meaning—completely. Leftfield drum & bass producer Equinox makes dub basslines so deep (below 30 Hz) they’re barely audible at high volume on standard speakers...
Addressing the rationality assumption through psychology was a further step away from the past. “This is all very new stuff,” says Daniel Benjamin, a graduate student who has been working with Laibson since his freshmen year as an undergraduate. “Economists have suspected that psychology may be important for a lot of economics, but it’s only recently that this kind of work has become the frontier of economic research...
...Middle East is a restaurant/nightclub where punk rock and the Near East collide. On Sundays and Wednesdays, groups of dancers shake their stuff up the aisles, wowing the patrons with their sass and flexibility. Paying a small cover charge on Wednesday will give you access to an entire night of performances accompanied by live Middle Eastern music, with bands hailing from Armenia to Lebanon. DJ Garabed mixes on most Sunday nights. On the last Sunday of the month, patrons can also take mini-lessons and buy hip scarves of their own from one of the vendors. To get into...