The first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to power
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled Prince and Princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump’s White House is unprecedented and dangerous. In Kushner, Inc., investigative journalist Vicky Ward digs beneath the myth the couple has created, depicting themselves as the voices of reason in an otherwise crazy presidency, and reveals that Jared and Ivanka are not just the President’s chief enablers: they, like him, appear disdainful of rules, of laws, and of ethics. They are entitled inheritors of the worst kind; their combination of ignorance, arrogance, and an insatiable lust for power has caused havoc all over the world, and may threaten the democracy of the United States.
Ward follows their trajectory from New Jersey and New York City to the White House, where the couple’s many forays into policy-making and national security have mocked long-standing U.S. policy and protocol. They have pursued an agenda that could increase their wealth while their actions have mostly gone unchecked. In Kushner, Inc., Ward holds Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump accountable: she unveils the couple’s self-serving transactional motivations and how those have propelled them into the highest levels of the US government where no one, the President included, has been able to stop them.
By ERIC ASIMOV
A new wave of energetic winemakers has pushed boundaries while bringing
more attention to older producers who had been considered behind the
times.
The question: What is Watson?
I.B.M.’s groundbreaking question-answering system, running on roughly 2,500 parallel processor cores, each able to perform up to 33 billion operations a second,
is playing a pair of “Jeopardy!” matches against the show’s top two living players, to be aired on Feb. 14, 15 and 16. Watson is I.B.M.’s latest self-styled Grand Challenge, a follow-up to
the 1997 defeat by its computer Deep Blue of Garry Kasparov, the world’s reigning chess champion. (It’s remarkable how much of the digital revolution has been driven by games and entertainment.) Yes, the match is a grandstanding stunt, baldly calculated to capture the public’s imagination. But barring any humiliating stumble by the machine on national television, it should.
Seven (stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American neo-noir[3] psychological crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey and John C. McGinley. The film tells the story of David Mills (Pitt), a detective who partners with the retiring William Somerset (Freeman) to track down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as a motif in his murders.
Definition — The neologism neo-noir, using the Greek prefix for the word new, is defined by Mark Conard as "any film coming after the classic noir ...
Film noir (; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression.[1]
黑色電影（法語：Film noir）是電影界用語，多指好萊塢偵探片，特別是強調善惡劃分不明確的道德觀與來自於性的動機的題材。一般認為，好萊塢經典黑色電影時期從1940年代持續至1950年代末。這個時期的黑色電影帶有壓抑黑白片的視覺風格，源自德國表現主義電影，同時很多典型的情節以及對經典黑色電影普遍看法來自於美國大蕭條時期的犯罪小說。Film noir這個詞來自法語，1946年第一次被法國評論家Nino Frank使用，主要用來描述該類風格晦暗、悲觀且憤世嫉俗的此類型電影，這類電影通常將背景放在犯罪舞弊叢生的底層社會，充斥著被過去所羈絆，對未來欠缺安全感的正邪角色的無法自拔[1]。但當時大部分美國電影業界人士並不了解這個概念。影史學家和評論界在事後才定義黑色電影；很多後來被認為是拍攝黑色電影的電影人聲稱當時並沒有意識到在製作一個新類型的影片。
stylized
/ˈstʌɪlʌɪzd/
depicted or treated in a mannered and non-realistic style.
"gracefully shaped vases decorated with stylized but recognizable white lilies"
self-styled
(
sĕlf'stīld')
adj.
As characterized by oneself, often without right or justification:
"poets, real or self-styled" (Constantine Fitzgibbon). See Usage Note at
so-called.
Definition of style
noun
1a particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way:different styles of management
a way of painting, writing, composing, building, etc., characteristic of a particular period, place, person, or movement: the concerto is composed in a neoclassical style a striking feature of Swift’s style is his use of conjunctions
a way of using language:he never wrote in a journalistic style [mass noun]:students should pay attention to style and idiom
[usually with negative] (
one's style)
one’s usual way of behaving or approaching situations:backing out isn’t my style
an official or legal title:the partnership traded under the style of Storr and Mortimer
2a distinctive appearance, typically determined by the principles according to which something is designed:the pillars are no exception to the general style
a particular design of clothing: his shoes were in a style that he could wear anywhere
a way of arranging the hair: for a glamorous style, hair was brushed out after setting
3 [mass noun] elegance and sophistication:a sophisticated nightspot with style and taste
4 Botany (in a flower) a narrow, typically elongated extension of the ovary, bearing the stigma.
5 Zoology (in an invertebrate) a small, slender pointed appendage; a stylet.
verb
[with object]
1design or make in a particular form:the yacht is well proportioned and conservatively styled
arrange (hair) in a particular way:he styled her hair by twisting it up to give it body
2 [with object and complement] designate with a particular name, description, or title:the official is styled principal and vice chancellor of the university
Origin:
Middle English
(denoting a stylus, also a literary composition, an official title, or a
characteristic manner of literary expression): from Old French
stile, from Latin
stilus. The verb dates
(first in sense 2 of the verb) from the early 16th century
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