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The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape.
The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.
Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.
Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.
Storage problems make neon signs the most ephemeral of commercial arts.
Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.
The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.
When credit is cheaper to use and easier to arrange, people do use more of it.
Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.
Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.
Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.
A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.
The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.
The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.
Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.
At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.
Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.
In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.
I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.
Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.
The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.
Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.
Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.
Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
Standardized sizes made inexpensive, off-the-rack garments economically feasible. They gave shoppers a reliable guide to finding clothes in self-service shops.
Bill Clinton has done some incredibly reckless, irresponsible things as president. But his campaign to expand Medicare entitlements has to rank among the worst.
Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.
For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).
The low point for neon came in 1982, when Holiday Inn did away with its signature 'Great Sign,' replacing the neon extravaganza with a forgettable green plastic box.
We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
Some of the higher price of L.A. real estate does reflect the intrinsic pleasure of living there, as I'm reminded every time I walk out my door into the perfect weather.
I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value. I'm not against glamour. But there's a kind of wonder in the stuff that gets edited away in the cords of life.
If you default on your Visa bill, nobody comes to repossess your refrigerator or auction off your shoes. The biggest penalty you'll face is trouble getting future credit.
The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.
By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.
The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.
The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.k.a. medical progress.