Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...production room of her store is separate and completely hidden from view, unlike at the other Gnomon branches...
...think of it as cable. AT&T wants you to view that innocuous coaxial wire tacked beneath the shag as a gateway to the digital future, one through which phone calls, faxes, e-mail, news, movies and entertainments as yet unimagined will stream into your home, the gigabytes of information flowing seamlessly into your collection of computers, televisions and telephones. And at the end of the month, for all that, AT&T will be sending you one bill...
These pieces are, for the most part, Wyoming grotesques. The people are hard, and the view bleak, tending toward melancholy. Brokeback Mountain is a surprise, the matter-of-fact, sorrowing, sketched life of a cowboy and his friend, married men, ordinary sorts, who over the decades never fully realize that they are gay. Real guys aren't gay, because, sex aside, they don't know how to be gay. A story called The Half-Skinned Steer is as grim as its title, and it begins, "In the long unfurling of his life, from tight-wound kid hustler in a wool...
...classic view of business school is a Paper Chase-style classroom full of hyper-competitive white guys in stuffed shirts. The defining 1973 movie was actually based on life at Harvard Law School, but the image of memorizing case studies, cold calling (when a professor calls on students at random) and learning by intimidation is one the B school can't seem to shake. It's also an image that may turn off a lot of women. "Many women feel that M.B.A. programs offer a very chilly climate for them," says Judith Sturnick, director of the Office of Women...
...Michigan/Catalyst study, students were asked to describe what characteristics they associate with certain professions. Who fared the worst? Not lawyers but businesspersons, whom the women described as "greedy" and "self-interested." It's too early to draw broad conclusions from the focus groups, say the researchers, but that negative view of business is in line with the long-standing theory that "women are drawn to jobs with some kind of obvious societal utility," says Carol Hollenshead, director of the Center for the Education of Women at Michigan. "Medicine, law and, increasingly, science and engineering can all be associated with helping...