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Next time you're down in the doldrums, you might want to avoid the mall. People who are sad tend to be willing to pay more for things - it's like going to the grocery store on an empty stomach - according to research into financial decision-making...
...report. But expect that to change. "An industry that was pretty much left for dead five years ago is right back beyond where it was in the peak of what we now call the bubble days," says Andrew Frank, media-research vice president at Gartner. "People in the moment tend to lose the perspective on that...
...college kids skittering out of the Girl Talk show at the nearby Avalon.An adolescence’s worth of experience had taught me that music like Girl Talk’s blog-approved dancehall indie mashups—which mix every song known to the teenage girl—tend not to go over well with the MLB set that was thronging the opposite side of the street. Certainly the tight jacket I was sporting was cause to walk home a bit faster. At the very least, I expected a shout of “Pansy...
...Horrors’ “She is the New Thing”—to folksy good-naturedness—Daniel Johnston’s “True Love Will Find You in the End”—the videos themselves tend to dissolve into an undifferentiated mass. More than anything, I kept coming back to the strangeness of watching mass-culture clips in a darkened theater. One of my favorite videos, made by Jonas Odell, accompanied a song called “Ali in the Jungle (version 2)” by a British...
...little skepticism toward the presidential primary system. But we weren’t talking about the election. We were talking about bestseller lists. “Bestseller lists are like the Top 40 in music or presidential campaigns,” Pinker said. “Chance fluctuations tend to be amplified.” Pinker united with fellow literary luminaries Robert Pinsky, Leslie Epstein, and Maureen McLane to decry bestseller lists at an event called “The Best Recommended: A National Book Critics Circle Project,” co-sponsored by the Harvard Book Store and held...