I looked over at the fireplace, as though it interested me, and then I said it: "Do you ever think about our kid?" The only sign that she'd heard me was a twitch next to her left eye.
In the nineteen-seventies, a number of black female writers — Gayl Jones and Toni Cade Bambara among them — began to work in the black vernacular and to use "nigger" to evoke a man's world that was as interesting to them as it was interested in them.
The Iranian government, for instance, is probably not as interested in Path or Foursquare (I know, I know!), as it is interested in using DPI to censor and monitor Internet activity throughout the country.
It interested composers as various as Strauss (who conducted it in 1935), Puccini (the opening notes of "Turandot" can be heard here), and Dukas's devoted student Olivier Messiaen (who admired the synesthetic color-coding of harmonies).
At first it interested me as I wanted to know more about the parties, but now it seems like the media isn't focused on what the parties actually stand for.
The stakeholder approach (Freeman 1984) for example provides a useful framework to classify the actors concerned with different social claims as it clarifies the interested groups and their wants and desires (Clarkson 1995; Figge et al. 2002).
Sending thanks, after all, can be as self-interested as it is polite.
A policy to stay the course won't work, and even if it could, it seems the U.S. is no longer interested, as it turns its attention toward Russia and the Pacific.
