"…The tragic story of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, the inseparable East Village artists who killed themselves last year believing they were being persecuted, will be the subject of a screenplay by American Pscyho author Bret Easton Ellis…"
"…refers to a number of theories that aim to explain the resurrection of Jesus, proposing that Jesus didn't die on the cross, but merely fell unconscious ('swooned'), and was later revived in the tomb in the same mortal body."
"For someone who places so much weight on social movements, though, Klein can get dyspeptic when she finds herself in the middle of one. Activists are so earnest, so dedicated, so—like her parents."
"Hi, Ian, it’s Lorne Michaels of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I’m calling you because I got your number from John Belushi. He says that you might be able to get some dancers up here ‘cause we want to have Fear on the show.'"
"Fourteen studios in four cities. Twenty-two assistant engineers. … Eleven musicians get their own personal thank-you lists; deranged mastermind Axl Rose's requires nearly three columns of tiny-ass type."
"…the knowledge, experience and or connections one has had through the course of their life that enables them to succeed more so than someone from a less experienced background."
"The mastery-oriented children are really hell-bent on learning something… 'learning goals' inspire a different chain of thoughts and behaviors than 'performance goals.'"
"I suspect the Saudis see the looming oilfields, pipelines and refineries in Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Brazil and a host of other places — places who, with the price of oil so high as it was, could afford to fund all the capital-intensive ancillary aspects of the oil business. However, if the price got lowered, as it has, they won’t (and it turns out aren’t) able to finance the building of those refineries, pipelines, shipping terminals, drilling and exploration."
"The pledges, amounting to half the value of everything produced in the nation last year… The commitment dwarfs the plan approved by lawmakers, the Treasury Department’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program."
"I wanted to build a casino in Las Vegas called Las Vegas, Las Vegas. Like the idea of Paris, Las Vegas (the real life casino) is that you don’t have to actually go there … So then (with Las Vegas, Las Vegas,) there’s the idea that you don’t actually have to go to Paris, Las Vegas either because there’s a replica of all of Vegas—including Paris, Las Vegas—within this other casino."
"I think most environmentalists have in their minds a belief, and it’s vindicated by a lot of what we’ve seen, that the human relationship with nature is zero-sum — for us to get what we want from the natural world, the natural world must be diminished. But go to a really well run pastured animal farm where they’re rotating crops, rotating species, and you will find a place where a lot of food comes off the land, and the land is improved as a result."
"Six years ago a Melbourne woman made a purchase that was considered somewhat ludicrous by family and friends — she paid £500 for a stencil by the enigmatic British street artist Banksy. But she is having the last laugh. Three weeks ago, the Banksy canvas sold at auction in London for a hammer price of £90,000…"
"There’s a renegade romance to street art — sprinting from cops, working in the shadows, using an alias, all in the name of art. But Aakash Nihalani, who creates trompe l’oeil 3-D boxes using tape on sidewalks and public surfaces, isn’t so cloak and dagger…"
"The Washington Post assembled a team of artists, architects, engineers and developers to think creatively about what to do with spaces once occupied by big box stores… Build a Town in the Parking Lot … The SoHo of the Suburbs … Hydroponic Truck Farm Market …"
"The battle with pirates operating off the coast of Somalia grew yesterday when raiders seized two more ships but lost one of their own in an uneven firefight with the Indian Navy."
"…we might see the development of nationwide used-clothing chains. … The neighborhood appliance shop could reappear in a new form - unlicensed, with hacked cellphones and rebuilt computers. … Among the green lawns of suburbia, kitchen gardens would spring up."
"The book, which purports to explain the real reason some people — like Bill Gates and the Beatles — are successful, is peppy, brightly written and provocative in a buzzy sort of way. It is also glib, poorly reasoned and thoroughly unconvincing."
"The 'good news' for Washington and Wall Street insiders was that Obama's 'star quality' would not be directed against the elite segments of the business class. The interesting black legislator from the South Side of Chicago was 'someone the rich and powerful could work with.'"
"Decades ago, when a husband and wife moved into their new home, a friend gave them a painting by the man's former college professor. Fast-forward 40 or 50 odd years…"
"On October 10, with several members dressed as builders and Smith sporting a clipboard and a fur coat, the group propped a ladder up against the home and entered through an unlocked window."
"…October magazine, which I coedit and cofounded in 1976, recently did a special issue that was an attack on the visual culture project. Like cultural studies, visual culture is aimed at what we could call pejoratively, abusively, deskilling."
"Firing people on the writing side because of the incompetence of the business side is a long tradition in the media business, and Jarvis gives management a New Age fig leaf with which to shift the blame from their own incompetence."
"American Express Co said it won approval to become a bank holding company, in a step that could cut its borrowing costs and give it more access to government money."
"The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral."
"The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong."
"Your presidential campaign again and again has demonstrated cowardly stands. 'Hope' some say 'springs eternal.' But not when 'reality' consumes it daily."
"He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics; He was known as 'O'Bomber' at high school for his skill at basketball … He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia … His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees … He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds…"
"…he performs as a rice shaman together with his nephew Robbie. …he will announce whether praising and blaming the two pots of rice has had any effect on the food’s condition."
"CBS News Political Correspondent Jeff Greenfield tells viewers what to look for on election night. What you'll know, and when you'll know it, when the polls close, state by state."