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A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows but also vintage commercials.
Author: Virginia Postrel - American WriterEnjoy , Vintage , Fashion , Advertising
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.
Author: Virginia Postrel - American WriterLife , Science , Best , Freedom
Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant - that's why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it's why sunglasses are glamorous - but also not so far above us that we can't identify with the person.
Author: Virginia Postrel - American WriterWorld , Live , Looking , Sunglasses
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.
Author: Virginia Postrel - American WriterYou , Feel , Something , Glamour
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
Author: Virginia Postrel - American WriterLike , Sense , Self , Decorating
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
Author: Virginia Postrel - American WriterPeople , War , Experience , Positive
The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.
Author: Virginia Postrel - American WriterSystem , Possibilities , Customer , Evolve
Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.
Author: Virginia Postrel - American WriterGreat , Movies , Stress , Promises
'The Matrix' is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on 'The Matrix' and glamour. It was criticized for glamorizing violence, because, look - sunglasses and those long coats, and, of course, they could walk up walls and do all these kinds of things that are impossible in the real world.
Author: Virginia Postrel - American WriterLook , World , Long , Walk
Kidney donors don't have to be close relatives of recipients, but they do need to have the right blood type. And kidneys from living donors tend to last many years longer than kidneys from deceased donors.
Author: Virginia Postrel - American WriterNeed , Blood , Living , Relatives
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