Word: turnings
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...Your dad was a jazz musician. Did he let you listen to your music or was it all jazz all the time? He was far too hip to be trying to tell you to turn some bulls___ off. As a matter of fact, my father was the one who encouraged me to play in the funk band I played in. I said, "Man, I don't know if I want to play in this loud, all-night band." And he said, "Man, play in the band. You'll have a good time." (Watch TIME's video "The March of TIME...
There's nothing like financial Armageddon for reviving the work of an old economist. Amid the recessionary doom and gloom, the world has channeled Adam Smith, dusted off John Maynard Keynes and revisited Eugene Fama. In recent days, it's been James Tobin's turn. Close to four decades since the Yale economist proposed a levy on foreign-exchange transactions - or a "Tobin tax," as the suggestion became known - the idea is enjoying a new lease of life. At a meeting of G-20 finance ministers last weekend, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suggested the group of leading countries consider...
...score, which alternates between vaguely eerie and uncomfortably alarming. A host of strange, unnatural sounds accompany moments of onscreen tension, at times recalling the abrasive and bizarre soundtrack of a Paul Thomas Anderson movie but without Anderson’s artistic discretion. The film’s surprising turn toward a dark and haunting ending, as typified by a grotesque and unexpected murder scene, also proves jarring and unnecessary. If this film were an artistic hopeful, it would probably do well to accept its limited talents, give up its dream, and get a real occupation...
...potentially, calamity) on the horizon. Direct comparisons fall short, however, if signaled by nothing more than the tragedy of President Kennedy’s assassination. With his death it becomes clear that although we do not know how the lives of Mad Men’s characters will turn out, we are, relatively speaking, omniscient to the impending historical events that will undoubtedly shape their lives, quite the opposite from how we know our own futures. We know that the Beatles are coming for them, but what is in store...
...finale to be a doomsday episode–the death of a character seemed inevitable. Instead, Don (really, Weiner, who co-wrote and directed the episode) embraced the notion that the only viable way to dig oneself out of seeming disaster is to innovate and march forward. In a turn of events that Hitchcock himself could have imagined, Draper manages to release himself from the fetters on pre-’60s corporate conventions, venturing out into uncharted territories–helming an independent company and living what is sure to be a rollicking life as a single...