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Jacqueline Goss is an experimental filmmaker whose short works using free-ranging associations, 2-D digital graphics, and apposite tidbits create funny, distinctly personal miniature histories of ambitious mapping projects, including New World cartography ( There There Square ), the human-ge...
Tue, 08 May 2012 14:20:52 -0700 -
15 Greatest Wes Anderson Moment
Final Curtain The Moment: Rushmore comes to a close in spectacular style as Max finally gets to share a dance with Miss Cross, stepping on to the dancefloor in slow motion just before the final curtain falls. The Music: Ooh La La by The Faces, possibly the most apposite choice of music in Anderson's storied career. "I wish I knew what I knew now, when I was younger." Don't we all? Why It's Great ...
Tue, 15 May 2012 23:52:40 -0700 -
Top 10 Action Movie Cliché
Talking Trash The Cliché: Trash talk is the prerogative of any action hero worthy of the name. If they're feeling particularly flash, they'll dole out an apposite one-liner before putting the villain to bed, although there's nothing in the rulebook that prevents our designated badass from giving a bit of verbal to an unhearing corpse... Examples: Arnie is the king of this particular cliché, with ...
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:28:00 -0700 -
Double-dip recession affords George Osborne no escape from this realit
The chancellor enshrined austerity to keep financial markets on side but now even they are getting jittery ? the UK economy is a disaster area Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? You had to go back to the year 1975, when Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts, to find the last time Britain was in a double-dip recession ? and Freddie Mercury's lyrics seemed particularly apposite for the ...
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:59:07 -0700 -
Historic but unhappy moment for Britai
Not since the 1970s has Britain looked as likely to take a second recession, writes Larry Elliott .
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:13:57 -0700 -
Cantillo
Inside the world of business
Fri, 18 May 2012 17:02:59 -0700 -
GDS International Set to Tackle Top Mining Issues at the Next Generation Mining Australia Summit 201
ADELAIDE, Australia, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --On the 16-18 th of October 2012, a selection of senior executives from Australia's most prominent mining companies will settle into the Stamford Plaza Adelaide ...
Thu, 10 May 2012 01:04:00 -0700 -
Pass notes, No 3,176: The Dark Side of the Moo
The Pink Floyd album is David Cameron's favourite. Or is it? Age: 39. Appearance: Seminal. Seminal? As in sp?. No! As in influential, ground-breaking etc. We are, of course, talking about Pink Floyd's era-defining eighth studio album. Of course. The one that spent 11 years without a break in the top 100 and has sold 50m copies worldwide. I thought this was G2, not Record Bores Monthly. But carry ...
Thu, 17 May 2012 16:31:18 -0700 -
Is Europe Sailing on the Titanic
U.S. growth in the first quarter fell to 2.2 percent, a disappointment. But in Europe, that news would have caused general rejoicing.
Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 -
Stand-Up Comedian Baratunde Thurston on 'How To Be Black'
Baratunde Thurston seemed like something of a wonder: a stand-up comedian via Sidwell Friends and Harvard. I note, however, that there is now something called The Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society , so perhaps surprise is unwarranted.
Mon, 07 May 2012 15:29:14 -0700 -