anamariecox 116 photos · 10289 followers “Small hot and crowded: Kurt Vile at the 400 Club” Continue reading →
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Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Ejaf Square-jawed and seemingly born to be an action hero, Bruce Willis would seem to stand as the perfect example of the ideal of rugged American individualism. And politically, he fits that exact profile. A one-time supporter of both Presidents Bush, Willis has harsh words for this year's presumptive Republican nominee for President, Mitt Romney, in a long feature interview in Esquire. "He's just such a disappointment, an embarrassment. Chin up, hair up. He's just one of those guys, one of those guys who says he's going to change everything," he tells the magazine. "And he'll get in there, and they'll smile at him and introduce themselves: 'We're Congress, we make sure nothing changes.' He won't do it. He can't. Everybody ... Continue reading →
Newark Mayor Cory Booker voiced criticism of attack ads on both sides, including a negative ad from President Obama's campaign about Mitt Romney's record at private equity firm Bain Capital. Photograph: Mel Evans/AP In just a week, the Obama campaign has released two ads using Mitt Romney's time at Bain Capital to paint the self-described "very successful" businessman as a money-grubbing, family-destroying, heartless sweatshop slave-driver. In the first of the two, about what happened after Bain took over the parent company of a Kansas City steel plant, one of the former employees says Bain was "like a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us."As metaphors go, it's not original but it's pretty accurate: private equity firms exist to squeeze liquidity out ... Continue reading →
Last week in Questioningly, we questioned two things simultaneously: the enduring appeal of literature (as refracted through the lens of our relaunched books blog, Page-Turner) and the possibly momentary momentum fuelling the Facebook I.P.O. (as you may have heard, Mark Zuckerberg’s leviathanic social network went public on Friday). At the crossroads of those two concerns, a question sprouted: What would be the best imagined status update for a literary character? The entries poured in. While Facebook itself was only up eight per cent in Friday’s trading, contest results were up nearly twenty per cent. From the first, we noticed an interesting trend. The breadth of world literature is vast, but there were some characters that were more trafficked than others. Call it a triumph of ... Continue reading →
