Word: validators
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...Thousands of upstanding citizens spend the best years of their lives trying to take a garage band bigtime and never score a record deal, goes the knee-jerk response, so how can already rich and universally-adored actors feel they have the right to regard music as their sideline? Valid as that complaint may be, a survey of three upcoming records by movie stars reveals that every once in a while celebrity dabblers can excel at making pop precisely because they're showmen first and musicians second...
...really seriously unless they are in some way "transgressive." To expect transgression from Thiebaud is to miss out on his pictures. He wants to offer people an intelligent pleasure, a spectrum of feeling that isn't snobbish or exclusive--and that acknowledges that there are some kinds of completely valid art, maybe more than we want to think, that go deep just because they look simple. They have concealed themselves behind the pleasure they offer...
...York Times reported that a British journalist armed with a fake title and an expense account was able to conquer New York society within a week. Yet the point of this story is not the superficiality of New York’s elite (although that’s a valid point to make). The point is that New York society is infinitely mobile. Everyone, even a fake aristocrat—or a bookish intern—is welcome...
...airlines' defense rests on the lack of conclusive evidence linking flying to dying, or even getting sick. "There is no scientifically valid evidence that the cabin environment in commercial aircraft is unhealthy," declares Dr. Russell Rayman, executive director of the Aerospace Medical Association. As for risk, the airlines maintain there is no evidence so far that suggests a busy aircraft cabin might be more dangerous than sitting still anywhere, whether on a crowded train, bus, car or even at home. Many carriers feel they have been unfairly singled out as the scapegoats of a health scare driven by the media...
...many ethical “issues.” (Whether these “issues” can in fact be resolved is not as important as the fact that people are worried by them.) A variety of views parade by, each carefully presented as no more or less valid than the last; one Catholic rejects stem cell research, but another accepts it; the Methodists might want to protect embryos, but traditional Jewish law treats them “as if they were water.” Finally, the Commission tries to split the baby—perhaps literally?...