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...dimensional characters and scenarios and into surprisingly complex psychological territory. Based on the book of the same name by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, “He’s Just Not That Into You” is both a close adaptation and wide interpretation of its original text. At its start, the film stays faithful to the book in both spirit and form, using endearing but direct humor and exaggerated cases to prove the authors’ points. Gigi is meant to represent the universal female voice—constantly worrying, obsessing, overanalyzing, and most of all, making...
...Shepard Fairey image. A street artist whose mixture of black, red, white, and, most recently, blue in stylized swaths makes his images instantly recognizable to the initiated, Fairey has peppered the walls of buildings, electrical boxes, and street signs for the past 20 years with stickers and posters. The text accompanying the images dares the observer to “obey,” seeking to prompt passersby to question the world, and especially the institutions, around...
When he's speaking from prepared text, Geithner is less than riveting. He has an odd, somewhat robot-like way of scanning the audience when he talks: look left, look center, look right, look center, etc. Sitting in the witness chair before a congressional committee, though, he is brilliant - at least when he's not having to spend all his time apologizing for screwing up his tax returns, as he did during his confirmation hearing last month. Today, before the Senate Banking Committee, he answered the questions he could easily answer with brisk clarity and deflected the ones he couldn...
...books) than its predecessor, with a sleek, Apple-like aluminum back. While its six-inch screen is the same size as the former model and still cannot render color, it will now display16 shades of gray, versus 4 in the original. That should improve the crispness of text, images and photos. Amazon also claims the new Kindle's battery can hold a charge 25% longer than the 1.0 version, allowing it to putter along for two weeks with its wireless connection off. (That connection, to a high-speed cellular network called WhisperNet, allows users to download books and periodicals virtually...
...Kindle also has something billed as an "experimental read-to-me feature" - users will be able to invoke a text-to-speech function, similar to that on most computers, that will turn any text into audio. Audio, that is, read by a synthesized computer voice (male or female, your choice.) While not nearly as natural sounding as, say, Audible books, some users might figure this is better than nothing. (See 25 must-have travel gadgets...