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Calder’s sketches are simultaneously whimsical and technical. In a study for his work Circus, Calder draws a playful trapeze contraption, with his personal notes on how to create it: “Place lead weight on aluminum shelf, pull white thread, releasing weight, pulling phantom up on black thread.” Seeing the actual manifestation of Circus in the next room adds to the impact. The installation is an amalgamation of miniature circus figures: a lion in a wire cage and its long-limbed trainer in the circus ring, dangling trapeze figures, horses, elephants, camels...
...characters, after all, strive to be better people. "There's a thread going all the way from Freaks and Geeks to Funny People," says Shandling, for whom Apatow worked as a writer on The Larry Sanders Show in the mid-'90s. "That philosophy is, We're all doing the best we can in life. It isn't easy. It's just a little funnier than Buddha Buddhism." When I ask Apatow if he sees himself having a career like those of two filmmakers known for the dramedy mode - Woody Allen and James L. Brooks, who made Terms of Endearment...
...thread that binds them is the China story. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recently revised its GDP growth forecasts for the country from 6.3% to 7.7% in 2009 and from 8.5% to 9.3% in 2010, on the back of government stimulus spending that appears to be making up for a steep drop in exports. The World Bank has also raised its 2009 forecast from 6.5% to 7.2%, and projects that China will replace Japan as the world's second largest economy in two years. (See 10 things to do in Shanghai...
...Whether the guys in bromances are dating each other (I Love You, Man), going to bed with each other (Superbad) or marrying each other (I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry), the common thread is the assumption by men of the traditional movie male and female roles. The women in The Hangover, with the fleeting exception of Heather Graham, who plays a hooker with a baby, are creatures either to ignore or flee from. Phil's wife makes no impression, Doug's bride-to-be is a briefly seen figure of increasing anxiety and Stu's longtime girlfriend is a shrew...
...their laptops or BlackBerrys. But within half an hour or so, word began to seep out into the Twittersphere that an interesting conversation about the future of schools was happening at #hackedu. A few tweets appeared on the screen from strangers announcing that they were following the #hackedu thread. Then others joined the conversation, adding their observations or proposing topics for further exploration. A few experts grumbled publicly about how they hadn't been invited to the conference. Back in the room, we pulled interesting ideas and questions from the screen and integrated them into our face-to-face conversation...