“Does this statement sound familiar to you? ‘My hip snaps or pops when I do grand battement or developpé devant or à la seconde. The snap sometimes presents with pain but sometimes not, and happens either on the up phase or down phase of the movement.’ Dancers might also notice decreased range of motion through the sagittal or frontal planes.”
Tag: 07.11.16
The Ugly Court Battle Over An Art-Dealing Dynasty’s Half-Billion-Dollar Tax Bill
“Over recent weeks in hushed New York dining rooms and private Parisian salons, Guy Wildenstein has been a walking object lesson in how billionaire dynasties decline.”
The Academy Of Motion Pictures Promised To Diversify This Year. In One Fell Swoop…
“According to a new Times analysis, with the 2016 class of invitees the academy has, in a single stroke, gone 52% of the way toward its goal of doubling the number of nonwhites in its ranks. When it comes to boosting the numbers of women, though, the academy is lagging slightly behind pace; the new class brings the academy roughly a fifth of the way toward its 2020 benchmark.”
A History Of Being Exhausted
“Those who imagine that life in the past was simpler, slower and better are wrong. The experience of exhaustion, and anxieties about exhaustion epidemics in the wider population, are not bound to a particular time and place. On the contrary: exhaustion and its effects have preoccupied thinkers since classical antiquity.”
Tennessee Williams’s Final Novel As (Sad, Scary) Auto-Fiction
Moise and the World of Reason, “seemingly sees Williams splitting himself in two and making the younger self horrified and repulsed by the older, whom that character sees as premonitory.”
Its Funding Ending, The World Monuments Fund Scales Back
“Since its founding, the fund has helped with many projects, including the repair of buildings damaged by flooding in Venice; the restoration of the Ochavo Chapel inside the 13th-century Toledo Cathedral in Spain; and a 10-year effort to restore the 18th-century Qianlong Garden within Beijing’s Forbidden City.”
How Pokemon Go Took Over The World In A Week (And What It Means)
“If Pokémon Go does represent a sea change in augmented reality, then it’s one that’s going to force us to rethink our approach to designed spaces, public and private. So many of the places people gather center on communal tragedy or reverence: funerals, war memorials, religion. What do you do when someone whips out their phone to catch a Geodude at the Holocaust Memorial? Or, as is apparently already happening, Auschwitz? Games, with the weight they bear—of play, of fun—might have once seemed inappropriate for those places. But now those places are squares on the game grid.”
Cautionary Tale? Why Did Google Delete A Literary Critic’s Blog?
In the weeks since then, Cooper has been updating readers with progress on the case via Facebook. So far, there hasn’t been much change in the situation: as of July 5th, Cooper wrote, “there are now three separate and simultaneous ‘internal investigations’ into the situation going on at Google.”
An Indian High Court Rules For Literary Tolerance, Defending Writer
This decision sends a strong message at a time when freedom of expression is under threat from government attempts to muzzle dissent, and from self-appointed morality enforcers affiliated with conservative groups.
The Behind-The-Scenes Stories Of Three Classic ‘Seinfeld’ Episodes
The table-reads for “The Chinese Restaurant” were disastrous. The writers fretted a lot about getting “The Contest” past the network censors (who, in the end, loved it). And the writer of the “Junior Mint” episode was convinced it would wreck his career.