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Rutter said that the Maxwell Dworkin Café—which features armchairs and a plasma television??“was always primarily a social space, and secondarily a café.” SEAS plans to maintain the social role of the space, and is looking to install more seating...
According to a study released by HMS this week, watching television??does not make babies smarter. Duh. But what about videos like “Baby Einstein?” Still no, say the researchers. While it won’t necessarily hurt to let your little one watch educational programs, there are better things you can do to set your baby on the road to a perfect SAT score...
...fact-checkers, separates the poster from the viewer and reality from fiction. The pervasive force of modern voyeurism—the fact that we can know intimate details about a person’s life and relationships without ever interacting with them, whether through Facebook, tabloids, or reality television??allows us to keep on looking, without examining the perverseness of transforming the act of viewing into a pleasure in and of itself. Against the atomized reality of individuals socializing through screens and in complete isolation, many still feel the need to classify their relationships based on our assumptions...
...What begins for Frost as a publicity stunt quickly grows into something more—a mission to extract from Nixon the confession he never gave to the American people. “Tricky Dick,” on the other hand, hopes to use this appearance on national television??his first since his resignation—to rehabilitate his reputation. Squaring off against the experienced television personality, Nixon proves a better showman than his interlocutor. An enigmatic Langella resists caricature; each viewer will leave the theater with a different impression of a man who is at once...
...whole thing reminded me, believe it or not, of the NBC series 30 Rock. Granted, “articulate speechlessness” is about the last thing you would find in this, one of television??s talkiest programs, but what in the realm popular culture is better at innocently taking the mickey out of the Man? Take the “cat anus” sequence in last week’s episode: The archetypal boss Jack Donaghy, crazed with career disappointment, announces that his new professional goal is to make sure that Tina Fey?...