May 6, 1998, possibly the first sighting of ‘The Shirt’ in Damaged.
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It looks like it’s the beleaguered-woman-who-can’t -catch-a-break shirt.
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There is also a blue polo shirt with a white collar that makes the rounds on numerous (murderous) women. Fiona in Shangri La and the woman from the parks department who had her husband killed in Lennys last case. It was in a few others too.
JP: In my view, everyone in the world lives within a circle, either due to economic, political, cultural, or family problems or traditions. The radius of the circle can be smaller or larger. Regardless of their geographic location, they live within a circle. I hope that if this film has any kind of effect on anyone, it would be to make them try to expand the size of the radius.
DW: While the film treats women, what are the consequences for the men in their lives?
JP: Iranian society, particularly in comparison to this part of the world, is a man’s world pretty much. The radius might be marginally larger for men. The purpose of this film was not to be against men or to be a feminist film—it’s a film about humanity. Men and women are part of humanity. In the film I never showed any kind of maltreatment or anger from men. For example, we see the women afraid of the police. This may or may not be real. When the police are shown in long shot, they’re menacing. However, in medium shot, you can see the policeman has a kind face. And he asks the woman: ‘Do you need any help?’ And also in the scene when the woman was buying a shirt for her fiancé, the store owner measured it against the soldier’s chest. And at the end of the film, when they’re in the paddywagon … throughout the film, every single woman wanted to have a smoke. Once they’re in the paddywagon, there is this humanitarian atmosphere.
Joanne Laurier: Is your point that the army and the police are just made up of ordinary people?
JP: In all my films, you never see an evil character, male or female. I believe everyone is a good person. It could be the result of social difficulties. Even the most dangerous criminal has that sense of humanity. At the bottom he’s still a human. It doesn’t mean that a criminal shouldn’t be punished just because social difficulties have driven him to it. He’s guilty because he didn’t try to expand the radius of his circle.
I am glad that none of my friends has ever found himself sitting on a bench in a park with a quarter in his pocket, as I once did, and nothing in the bank; in fact, no bank account. It’s a very lonely feeling. It gives new meaning to the sense of loneliness and despair.
I wallowed in that slough for a bit. It was not, after all, a happy situation and I am not a dim-witted optimist. But I had two choices, die in the slough or move on. I thought of the last two lines of Milton’s Lycidas,
At last he rose, and twitch’d his mantle blue:
To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.So I got up, forever grateful to Mr. Barrows, my college English instructor, for teaching me to study Lycidas seriously and realize what a great poem it is and why that matters.
Falling
William McPherson
https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/thinking-about-the-poor/articles/falling
“The core insight I received from my second reading of Office Politics was that, if I thought I could stand at one remove from my place of employment and regard it as a kind of diorama or spectacle, I was deluding myself. As Rilke wrote in a very different context, all this seems to require us. I had fallen into the quotidian and was going to have to work with the materials at hand, pedestrian and unpromising as they might seem, to make of my life and career something meaningful. This was no small gift of self-knowledge to receive from a novel.”
Office Politics
Wilfred Sheed
From the foreword by Gerald Howard
In William Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, the character Rosalind observes that Orlando, who has been running about in the woods carving her name on trees and hanging love poems on branches, “seems to have the quotidian of love upon him.” The Bard’s use doesn’t make it clear that quotidian comes from a Latin word, quotidie, which means “every day.” But as odd as it may seem, his use of quotidian is just a short semantic step away from the “daily” adjective sense. Some fevers come and go but occur daily; in medical use, these are called “quotidian fevers” or simply “quotidians.” Poor Orlando is afflicted with such a “fever” of love.
Accidentally opened LinkedIn and already was met with the stupidest thing I’ve read all week pic.twitter.com/1qNqPA12Nr
— LinkedIn Lunatics (@LinkedInLunat1c) April 22, 2026
Predictions indicate the AI bubble could burst or face a major correction between 2026 and 2027, as high infrastructure costs clash with low, slow-growing returns. While some analysts suggest a correction is already underway, others, including Benchmark’s Bill Gurley, anticipate a reset due to unsustainable investment.
Key Factors and Predictions:
Timeline: Many expect a significant market adjustment within 2–3 years (by 2027), with some predicting a crash as early as 2026.Root Causes: The bubble is fueled by immense capital expenditures on data centers—expected to exceed $1 trillion by 2028—and potentially low demand or slow adoption.
Profitability Concerns: Many AI companies currently burn cash, and it remains to be seen if they can survive without subsidized token costs.
Market Sentiment: According to a Polymarket poll, a significant number of traders are betting on a correction by the end of 2026.
If the expected high returns from AI fail to materialize by early 2027, a severe correction could follow, similar to past technology bubbles. However, a potential “soft landing” could occur if AI adoption slowly matures over decades.
Sometimes vague language is better because it expresses the truth that things are unclear or unsettled. This is why poets will often use metaphors and contradictory language; it is a meaningful inarticulateness. Vague language is the appropriate vessel for speaking from a position of uncertainty.
If you value what’s fun, what’s interesting, what’s curious, what’s creative—those concepts have imprecise edges. Applying these terms always involves dealing with fuzz and unclarity. But you should feel uncertain when you’re in unknown territory. Fuzzy values are appropriate when you don’t yet know everything about what’s important. They encourage exploration, because they don’t have sharp edges. Fuzzy values build in an open-minded attitude.
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game
C. Thi Nguyen
Intuition, says Ingmar Bergman, is the essence of creativity and the foundation of his unparalleled success as a film maker.
”I make all my decisions on intuition,” said the 62-year-old Swedish director. ”But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.”
In a rare public appearance, Mr. Bergman spoke today of success and failure, creativity and laziness to drama students at Southern Methodist University. A Lazy Man at Heart
”I’m very, very lazy,” conceded Mr. Bergman. ”I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing. Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.”
”You feel that this is going to be the best scene ever made and you want to protect it from others,” he added. But the magic dissipates and is replaced by tedium when it comes time to write, a task Mr. Bergman clearly disdains despite his success at it.
May 8, 1981
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/08/movies/ingmar-bergman-confides-in-students.html
