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All weblog posts tagged "nyt"
The Americanization of Mental Illness (NYT) → The Americanization of Mental Illness (NYT): The story goes off the rails a little bit toward the end, but the cultural communicability of mental illness, and the way people react differently when they perceive a biochemical basis for it, were both holy-shit moments of the first order. tags: biochemical basis, americanization, mental illness, nyt, little bit Posted at bumppo.net on March 7, 2010, 11:12 pm NYT:
So when Mr. Scorsese talks about “Shutter Island,” he also... → NYT:
So when Mr. Scorsese talks about “Shutter Island,” he also inevitably needs to speak of remembered films like those of Jacques Tourneur, who made the doomy, complex noir “Out of the Past” (1947). “I like watching ‘Out of the Past’ repeatedly,” he said, “because I never know quite where I am in it, I don’t know what’s the beginning, the middle or the end. I screened it for Leo and the other actors just to ... tags: jacques tourneur, shutter island, nso, nyt, scorsese, point in time, leo, actors, films Posted at bumppo.net on March 7, 2010, 11:12 pm Call Me Shallow But This Just Makes. My. Day. →
This week's Medal of Freedom Award goes to Vulgar Morality for Death of news -- readership dies laughing edition The NYT stands at the pinnacle of the global news business. Yet it too has suffered a terrible decline over recent years. But if the photo and caption below are any indication, they have just hit on a brilliant new approach to journalism -- call it info-comedy. The heck with validation. Who needs editors? ... tags: medal of freedom, freedom award, global news, new approach, nyt, readership, morality, pinnacle, heck, validation, journalism, decline, comedy, editors, photo Posted at American Digest on March 7, 2010, 9:11 pm Silicon Alley Rally →
I guess I'm on the record being annoyed with NYC's recent look-at-me-look-at-me glee over a handful of successful startups. Obviously, it's not that I don't want this fair city to succeed; it's just that I shun boosterism for its own sake, and there's a lot of that here. Go social media!
That said, Jenna Wortham's Sunday NYTimes piece on the scene hits all the right spots, namechecks all risers, and generally feels informed about what's at ... tags: silicon alley, fashion finance, digerati, nytimes, wortham, risers, glee, startups, jenna, handful, stake, sake, sectors, rally Posted at Fimoculous.com on March 7, 2010, 7:13 pm |
