Late last month the Wall Street Journal reported the worsening Myspace advertiser drought, with the sharpest audience drop off yet in February this year.
Which would you prefer: death by hanging, an IRS audit or making a presentation to a sharp, knowledgeable audience?
And I think nowadays, with YouTube, I think people are so sharp and audiences are especially perceptive, because they see these moments from all over, from all these different people's lives, and you can't fake it.
Tarantino pointed out that sharp-eyed audiences might spot distant origins of a character they already know from his work.
"The Great Money Trick" never failed to work both for the angry, sharp and sympathetic audience at the Everyman and the more conservative, though equally alert, audience in Chichester's Minerva theatre.
Hofesh Shechter, who thinks much modern dance 'boring', showed his tribal, existential In Your Rooms at three London venues, building up unstoppable momentum and a sharp young crossover audience as he went.
And that was after taking on the Fire and Police Departments in tones so sharp that the audience, accustomed only to praise for the city's emergency workers since Sept. 11, all but gasped.
More than anything, though, the ending of the play inspired the sharpest debate among audience members at the recent performance (and according to Mr. Norris and Ms. Shapiro).
It all seems rather silly in 2015; but then maybe it's not the pictures that got sharper, but the audience.
If you like aluminium as much as you like Android, AT&T, and Acer, then the FCC has some good news for you: the Liquid Metal S120 has just been confirmed as playing nice with GSM/EDGE 850/1900 and WCDMA Band II and V — the sharper in the audience will notice that that makes it a sure fit for AT&T.
