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...company, last year introduced what it calls "magnetraction technology" - edges that are serrated like a bread knife - and has combined it with a body curved to slide over powder and crud. The result is a snowboard that grips when you need it to and otherwise slips over everything like, yes, a banana peel. A stiffened tip and tail increase stability off big landings in the terrain park, which is where the board's garish yellow color and unorthodox design will probably find its biggest fans...
...Like me, my eightysomething mother, a politically savvy liberal who has loved Oprah Winfrey for years, is deeply disappointed by Winfrey's support for Obama. Yes, we have to consider that there are men who will vote for anyone but a woman, and especially anyone but Hillary Clinton. But for "O" to support Obama, who's vastly less experienced than Clinton, makes Oprah's decision seem divisive, racist and against the best interests of the country as a whole. This next presidential vote cannot be about color or sex. It's got to be about qualifications. Her choice...
...Born in 1919 to Eurasian parents - his father was a wealthy Muslim-English lawyer, his mother German-Scottish-Sinhalese - Bawa was, yes, raised with that proverbial silver spoon. Cambridge-educated, he enjoyed an aimless youth of profligate spending, sumptuous taste and spiffy automobiles. The title page of Geoffrey Bawa, a seminal Singaporean monograph published to coincide with the London exhibition, is a money shot of Bawa's twinkling Rolls-Royce. Contemporary Donald Friend - a peripatetic, chain-smoking Australian artist and compulsive diarist - grumbled about Bawa's "grand ducal airs...
...insights, they usually come in the form of snappy one-liners (“I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no ‘No Child,’ no ‘who child,’ no ‘yes child’…I know there’s a hole in the ceiling; now who’s accountable for that?”) that end up making you nod your head in passive agreement, rather than urge you to think critically about the state...
...There,” serious music fans will draw the most from “Walk Hard.” Reilly goes through creative phases that resemble (either implicitly or explicitly) the careers of Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, Sonny Bono, Brian Wilson, and, yes, Dylan himself. While “Walk Hard” demonstrates that Apatow and his cohorts cannot promote from within their own ranks without resorting to their basest kind of humor, fans of “Anchorman” and “Superbad” will be coming out in droves...