Word: mouth
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...like Henri Matisse, in a wheelchair in his 80s, who continued to create art - cutting out bits of colored paper, painting with his brush in his mouth, supervising his decoration of the Chapel of the Rosary in St.-Paul de Vence because it was what he did, because it kept him alive. That's why Les Paul continued to play weekly gigs at Iridium well into his 90s, until shortly before his death, putting the final touches, grace notes, on the edifice of his achievement. Each Monday evening, two legends would fill that tiny stage: a living legend, Les Paul...
...Ezekiel Emanuel, the medical ethicist and oncologist who advises President Obama, does not own a television, and if you catch him in a typically energized moment, when his mind speeds even faster than his mouth, he is likely to blurt out something like, "I hate the Internet." So it took him several days in late July to discover he had been singled out by opponents of health-care reform as a "deadly doctor," who, according to an opinion column in the New York Post, wanted to limit medical care for "a grandmother with Parkinson's or a child with cerebral...
...dozen fan groups on Facebook and a forthcoming iPhone app, Bananagrams may be the most popular game you've never heard of. From a first order two years ago of 5,000 banana-shaped pouches filled with plastic letter tiles, the game has proved to be a word-of-mouth hit, with 2 million units expected to be sold this year...
...protest may have been, there was something about it—as much as it pains me to say this—worthy of attention. This something, of course, was the neighborhood’s reaction to the influx of angry, haggard faces gathered at the mouth of Daria Place...
...produced) were about five times their opening-weekend gross; Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Pineapple Express made about four times their openers. People saw these movies, told their friends they were funny and made them hits. The new movie will be hard pressed to duplicate that word-of-mouth salesmanship. For most audiences, Apatow's 2-hr. 24-min. attempt to encase a James L. Brooks-style comedy-drama in an overflowing condom of penis jokes didn't work. Instead of a Terms of Endearment, it's more like Brooks' last flop movie. Yep, Spanglish. (See TIME's video "Should...