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fiefoe"The Tiger Cub Speaks" / Andrew Marantz
__ “And, besides, it’s not like success is the only important thing,” Chua-Rubenfeld said. “The Nazis were a classic Triple Package culture.” She added, “And there are plenty of Triple Package people on antidepressants.”
"Breaking the Waves" / Ariel Levy
__ But the cyberpunk novelist William Gibson tweeted, “The content of that YouTube channel smells of fiction. Those of us who slave in the factory know the smell.”
Dan Chiasson on Robert Frost: One of his greatest statements about poetry applies to his letters also, which seem to subtract sentence after sentence from themselves until they close: “Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
"Stinktown" / Nick Paumgarten
__ In the interim, speculation opened minds, and noses. People paid closer attention to the city’s smells. It was like a movie in which a charismatic stranger comes to town, dazzles everyone, and then, exposed as a cheat, flees, leaving the townspeople to reflect on how little they’ve appreciated what they had all along.
Trampoline:
“shapes”: tuck jumps (knees to chest), straddles (midair splits), pikes (touch your toes)
Next up: seat drops (land on your bottom) and swivel hips (do a half twist between seat drops).
the next challenge: lying on your back with your legs up, like a baby, and kicking the air to achieve a steady bounce.
Finally: back drops (fall on your spine).
"Game of Thrones" / David Owen
"Go Giants" / Adam Gopnik
__ Nothing is more American than our will to make the enormous do the work of the excellent. We have googly eyes for gargantuan statements... Even in this supposedly diminished era, the credence that Americans give to grandeur and gravity sets our novels apart.
"The Inside War" / Connie Bruck
__ Feinstein became friends with Shanghai’s mayor, Jiang Zemin, and the two visited each other regularly; Jiang once spent Thanksgiving in San Francisco with Feinstein and Blum.
__ In an office down the hall, she found Supervisor Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay elected official, face down on the floor, surrounded by blood; she reached for his neck, hoping to find a pulse, and her finger went through a bullet hole. She soon learned what had happened: after Moscone refused to give White his job back, White had shot him and then gone on to Milk’s office.
"Life With Father" / Dana Goodyear
__ In 1996, when Maya Forbes was twenty-eight, an alumna of “The Larry Sanders Show” with a studio development deal, she introduced her future husband, Wally Wolodarsky, to her father, a descendant of two of the older and more prominent families in Boston. They were with Forbes’s sister, China—the singer of a band called Pink Martini—and China’s boyfriend at the time, the director Wes Anderson, who was working on “Rushmore.” The group picked up Maya and China’s dad, Cameron, at McLean, the psychiatric hospital outside Boston where he stayed during bipolar episodes.
"Power To the People" / Bill McKibben
__ “No other industry uses capital like that anymore,” Kauffman said. The regulations are perverse: new software that can reduce electrical demand must be expensed in the current year, while a new wooden pole can generate that ten-per-cent markup for the utility in the course of its fifty-year life span. A pole makes money—hence, poles.
"The Demolition Man" / Jane Kramer
__ he told me, was “changing the narrative of Europe through art.” Renzi tries out aphorisms the way other men do ties. The last time we had talked, it was “changing the story of Europe through art.”
"Rough-and-Tumble" / Alec Wilkinson
__ Most people, however, are action-blind. The person or the thing performing the gesture distracts from the gesture itself. She wonders why, when people see a horse running, for example, they say, “There’s a horse galloping,” not, “There’s a gallop.” At the heart of Streb’s inquiry is the ambition to enact flight, to overcome what she calls “the hegemony of the ground.”
__ STREB dancers land precisely horizontal, so that no part of the body takes more force than another. “If you tilt before you land, you’re going to get walloped,” Streb said... You can’t look in a mirror when you’re falling. I asked Cassandre Joseph how she knows she is horizontal. “Spatial awareness and muscle memory,” she said. “Your body knows: I’ve been here before.”
Emily Nussbaum on "Hannibal": Hannibal may seem familiar: he’s another middle-aged male genius with a fetish for absolute control, like Don Draper and Walter White and Dr. House and Francis Underwood. Astrologically speaking, he’s a Sherlock with Lucifer rising. But, mainly, Hannibal suggests the fantasy of the uncompromising television auteur: he’s the perfectionist who cares only that every detail of his vision be realized, no matter what sacrifices that might require.
Dali's dream sequences for Hitchcock's "Spellbound"
__ “And, besides, it’s not like success is the only important thing,” Chua-Rubenfeld said. “The Nazis were a classic Triple Package culture.” She added, “And there are plenty of Triple Package people on antidepressants.”
"Breaking the Waves" / Ariel Levy
- “In some parts one grows woody; in others one goes bad,” the critic Charles Sainte-Beuve wrote. “Never does one grow ripe.”
- Agony in the sport is a given. The body suffers from being immersed for days in salt water: when a swimmer swallows water as she breathes, it abrades the soft tissue of the lips, the tongue, and the throat. The throat starts to swell shut;
- a documentary about the swim, filmed her as she was pulled from the sea: her face is riven with terror, and then she closes her eyes and goes blank as the medical team administers oxygen. Stoll screams at her to keep breathing and not to fall asleep. Finally, air starts coming in and out of her nose, fogging the oxygen mask.
__ But the cyberpunk novelist William Gibson tweeted, “The content of that YouTube channel smells of fiction. Those of us who slave in the factory know the smell.”
Dan Chiasson on Robert Frost: One of his greatest statements about poetry applies to his letters also, which seem to subtract sentence after sentence from themselves until they close: “Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
______________________
"Stinktown" / Nick Paumgarten
__ In the interim, speculation opened minds, and noses. People paid closer attention to the city’s smells. It was like a movie in which a charismatic stranger comes to town, dazzles everyone, and then, exposed as a cheat, flees, leaving the townspeople to reflect on how little they’ve appreciated what they had all along.
Trampoline:
“shapes”: tuck jumps (knees to chest), straddles (midair splits), pikes (touch your toes)
Next up: seat drops (land on your bottom) and swivel hips (do a half twist between seat drops).
the next challenge: lying on your back with your legs up, like a baby, and kicking the air to achieve a steady bounce.
Finally: back drops (fall on your spine).
"Game of Thrones" / David Owen
- There was also the challenge of fitting things together in a way that would allow the wooden panels to move without splitting or cracking. “That’s a tricky problem, because a train car is moving all the time, and it isn’t a completely rigid object,” he said. “It also contracts and expands
- Doing something as simple as slightly increasing the thickness of the padding in a seat cushion can necessitate a new round of testing and certification, because a more resilient seat could make a passenger bounce farther after an impact, increasing the risk of injury caused by turbulence or a hard landing. Delethalizing some premium-class seats—in which a passenger’s head and torso have a lot of room to accelerate before being stopped by something solid—requires the addition of a feature that many passengers don’t even realize is there: an air bag concealed in the seat belt.
- The rule of thumb, I was told, is “a thousand dollars an inch”—meaning that the small screen in the back of each economy seat can cost an airline ten thousand dollars, plus a few thousand for its handheld controller.
- the designers in Singapore sent the designers in London an exultant overnight message saying that they thought they’d found another half inch.
- Creating the sample’s effect in a coating, he said, would require a primer, a black coat, a gloss coat, a paint coat, a lacquer coat, and at least a couple of other things, plus long drying times between steps. But he thought he’d found a simpler way to achieve almost the same thing, and he gave Tighe two samples. “The first person who figures out how to make a convincing chrome paint will make a fortune,” Lilley said.
- Perhaps part of him longed for a relationship of complete equality, where people were judged not by their rank but by their wisecracking. It was impossible to get a sense of him outside his captainness.
- Everything about the Navy system of discipline advertised the advantages of not getting deeper into trouble.
- Auden said that poetry makes nothing happen. Much of what happens on a carrier is dedicated to turning the boat into a poem, to making sure that nothing happens.
"Go Giants" / Adam Gopnik
__ Nothing is more American than our will to make the enormous do the work of the excellent. We have googly eyes for gargantuan statements... Even in this supposedly diminished era, the credence that Americans give to grandeur and gravity sets our novels apart.
____________________________
"The Inside War" / Connie Bruck
__ Feinstein became friends with Shanghai’s mayor, Jiang Zemin, and the two visited each other regularly; Jiang once spent Thanksgiving in San Francisco with Feinstein and Blum.
__ In an office down the hall, she found Supervisor Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay elected official, face down on the floor, surrounded by blood; she reached for his neck, hoping to find a pulse, and her finger went through a bullet hole. She soon learned what had happened: after Moscone refused to give White his job back, White had shot him and then gone on to Milk’s office.
______________________________
"Life With Father" / Dana Goodyear
__ In 1996, when Maya Forbes was twenty-eight, an alumna of “The Larry Sanders Show” with a studio development deal, she introduced her future husband, Wally Wolodarsky, to her father, a descendant of two of the older and more prominent families in Boston. They were with Forbes’s sister, China—the singer of a band called Pink Martini—and China’s boyfriend at the time, the director Wes Anderson, who was working on “Rushmore.” The group picked up Maya and China’s dad, Cameron, at McLean, the psychiatric hospital outside Boston where he stayed during bipolar episodes.
"Power To the People" / Bill McKibben
__ “No other industry uses capital like that anymore,” Kauffman said. The regulations are perverse: new software that can reduce electrical demand must be expensed in the current year, while a new wooden pole can generate that ten-per-cent markup for the utility in the course of its fifty-year life span. A pole makes money—hence, poles.
"The Demolition Man" / Jane Kramer
__ he told me, was “changing the narrative of Europe through art.” Renzi tries out aphorisms the way other men do ties. The last time we had talked, it was “changing the story of Europe through art.”
"Rough-and-Tumble" / Alec Wilkinson
__ Most people, however, are action-blind. The person or the thing performing the gesture distracts from the gesture itself. She wonders why, when people see a horse running, for example, they say, “There’s a horse galloping,” not, “There’s a gallop.” At the heart of Streb’s inquiry is the ambition to enact flight, to overcome what she calls “the hegemony of the ground.”
__ STREB dancers land precisely horizontal, so that no part of the body takes more force than another. “If you tilt before you land, you’re going to get walloped,” Streb said... You can’t look in a mirror when you’re falling. I asked Cassandre Joseph how she knows she is horizontal. “Spatial awareness and muscle memory,” she said. “Your body knows: I’ve been here before.”
Emily Nussbaum on "Hannibal": Hannibal may seem familiar: he’s another middle-aged male genius with a fetish for absolute control, like Don Draper and Walter White and Dr. House and Francis Underwood. Astrologically speaking, he’s a Sherlock with Lucifer rising. But, mainly, Hannibal suggests the fantasy of the uncompromising television auteur: he’s the perfectionist who cares only that every detail of his vision be realized, no matter what sacrifices that might require.
Dali's dream sequences for Hitchcock's "Spellbound"
