An ideal production does more: It balances the busyness of all these worlds with the pain and foolishness such busyness engenders.
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"To sum up, people dread idleness yet were not willing to engage in busyness unless they could justify the busyness with a purpose," Yang and Hsee wrote.
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Despite their recent busyness, Dixon and Stein aren't completely withered.
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Busyness (rather than actual productivity) is a badge of honor.
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That I can reenter my busyness differently when I sit.
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The current art audience equates dazzle and busyness with aesthetic experience.
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But constantly harping about your busyness can actually have adverse consequences.
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Choose the initial discomfort of niksen over the familiarity of busyness.
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Time becomes spherical and exudes the deep glow of cogent busyness.
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Busyness and self-importance bar the way and also, often, deep suspicion.
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Because apparently, my problems still love hiding behind the facade of busyness.
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The cult of busyness doesn't seem to exist there, and it's refreshing.
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Ferriss labels most busyness as a form of mental laziness and indiscriminate action.
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At moments the busyness of the plot overshadows the wit of the performances.
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Busyness is not, nor was it ever, a guiding principle in my life.
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I think it's because our intoxication with 'busyness' is, to some extent, dying down.
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But if you have today off, take a conscious stand against all this busyness.
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But Diane, the widowed septuagenarian immersed in all that busyness, will not be deterred.
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In my days of busyness, I loathed the work pop-in; too many unscheduled interruptions.
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We wear "busyness" like a badge, a sign of significance and success, maybe even fulfillment.
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The affluent often feel besieged by busyness and plagued by a daily excess of choices.
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Otherwise, being driven by busyness often transforms into heaviness, which overwhelms the best of us.
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I have minimized contact, respond "nothing to report," always claim busyness when she calls, etc.
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" Kreider writes, "This busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness.
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In my days of busyness, I loathed the work pop-in — too many unscheduled interruptions.
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I think the difference is that I became aware of my busyness and started hating it.
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Speaking with PEOPLE in early August, he said the busyness kept his mind from darker thoughts.
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And sometimes in the busyness of the existence, you're like, I can take care of this.
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Her busyness and hustle reminded a fan of how an ant might behave in a group.
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There is less busyness and more areas of solid color, especially in the paintings of interiors.
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The ubiquity of smartphones, together with our culture of celebrating busyness, makes ad hoc approaches difficult.
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Yet these very activities are the antidote to the nonessential busyness that infects so many of us.
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The busyness of the modern world can make it difficult to try to live in the moment.
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One 2010 study even found that people actually have an aversion to idleness, finding busyness more comforting.
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And so it continues as the piece unfolds, at one point breaking into a babble of busyness.
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I think the difference is that I became aware of my busyness and started to hate it.
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Busyness implies hard work, which implies good character, a strong education, and either present or future affluence.
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Along the way, a beautiful clarification happens, from the busyness of his early life to a later simplicity.
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"We are definitely New Yorkers at heart; we like the busyness, and we like the bustle," he said.
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We live in a time of unparalleled busyness — and every minute of the day is important to us.
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"We know that activity does not equal productivity, and busyness does not equal business," productivity coach Grace Marshall says.
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Drivers will receive real-time information about the cost and busyness of roads, encouraging them to consider other routes.
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People need to have their rest defended from the constant encroachment of busyness, particularly at the hands of business.
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I'm often too busy to sit but when I sit I realize that busyness is a state of mind.
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I came to understand cooking as relentless busyness in pursuit of results — results that people might show up to enjoy.
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"The most important thing is to look for small wins right now," she said, referring to the battle against busyness.
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You come home from work and you're used to your wife and three kids and that daily busyness and connection.
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When you hack your life, you take the busyness out of your day — even though you may still be busy.
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If you mistake busyness for importance — which we do a lot — you're not able to see what really is important.
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I am working as much as ever and find it hard to not get sucked into the trappings of busyness.
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I like that it's a momentary escape from the busyness of the city, but you haven't really escaped it at all.
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The ensemble's endless agitation exudes the go-for-broke busyness that performers usually try out in exploratory rehearsals and then discard.
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The music is brassy and industrious, with Baroque-like strands of crisscrossing lines, though the busyness gets interrupted by rhythmic disruptions.
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When it came to my busyness, though, I had what might be described as extreme difficulty looking beyond the hamster wheel.
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The stillness of Hill's work contrasts with the busyness of Huffman's: an environment of digital images, videos, projections, objects, and sound.
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We're connected in locations that once seemed far removed from the busyness of the world, like on subways, airplanes, and cruise ships.
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She exudes an air of sensible busyness as she zips about the city in one of her many well-cut trench-coats.
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The main point is that you're isolated and refrain from "being busy," says Hawkes, because busyness blocks you from accessing their intuition.
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Seeming to wander through small incidents and mundane busyness, it acquires momentum and dramatic weight through a brilliant kind of narrative stealth.
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Their utility suggested a sense of busyness and ambition well suited to a new age in which emergent technologies were changing everything.
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But I was wrong, we were scheduling eight weeks out, presumably due to the usual combo of travel, vacation, and general busyness.
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And yet both activities also cultivate a sort of mental busyness: If, say, yoga encourages the absence of thought, swimming encourages its presence.
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Instead of being a badge of success, busyness may send the signal to your enlightened colleagues and associates that you aren't working smart.
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Inauthentic leaders may tout their busyness, send impersonal communications, behave differently in different settings, talk over people, and not practice work-life balance.
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The finding that busyness has become a status symbol turns Thorstein Veblen's idea of conspicuous consumption among the "leisure class" on its head.
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That's a growing number of us these days, when busyness — at work and at home — is seen as a kind of status symbol.
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Again and again, he told me, he has asked other researchers for feedback and received either excuses of busyness or no reply at all.
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Most surprising of all, it's a time-travel movie, a sci-fi wrinkle that sneaks up on you amid the rest of the busyness.
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Sure, I might not actually be busy in the moment, but busyness exhaustion from my demanding job justified this slight stretch of the truth.
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Bishop sat down with Business Insider to share his top tips for how small retailers can prepare for the season&aposs business — and busyness.
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The problem is everything else: our busyness, our desire to never repeat an outfit on social media, the psychological and physical obsolescence of fast fashion.
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Invoking the busyness of children and careers, they prescribed us a silent 40-minute walk to the beach: "Commit yourself to not talking," it said.
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And in return he got what New York for all its busyness so often offers those who could use a good dose of it — kindness.
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" Her research is "vigorous but useless," she writes, though watching grebes she sees that most of us avoid lulls by filling them with "recognizable busyness.
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And there's a good amount of busyness in the fair, which perhaps supports the art-making-as-compulsion narrative by which outsiderness is often defined.
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I don't think I am alone in my feelings about busyness, nor do I think these feelings are especially new for the average working adult.
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What worries biologists is that if all this busyness does lead to mining, it will wreck habitats before they can be properly catalogued, let alone understood.
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Goal's machine intelligence, however, will attempt to outfox your busyness/lack of motivation, finding better time slots for goals until you can no longer avoid them.
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"One of my personal equinox practices is that I plan my winter...to get more centered after the busyness of the past year," De Grandis says.
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"In busyness, time generates happiness, as long as it is used toward a purpose, even a feebly justifiable one," Yang and Hsee wrote in their study.
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It's curvy, it's shiny and it's a smart move, getting away from the busyness older phones like the One, while still retaining the familiar HTC shape.
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They also have the busyness of good television drama, with lots of characters to keep track of and plot twists that keep you on your toes.
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As I learned more about ACT and started incorporating its methods into my psychotherapy practice with clients, something important dawned on me: Busyness devoured my values.
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I'd put it down to three things: the game's inherent complexity, the consequent visual busyness and difficulty of following what's happening on screen, and Valve's presentation style.
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The mere suggestion of a "calm interface" points out, by contrast, the busyness of our dominant interfaces: their horrid colorways, their recursive, maddening, rectangle-within-rectangle structure.
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It's a standard way to design an open world, now, but it's also a weaker one: It replaces a sense of place with a sense of busyness.
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Gustav Klimt's unraveling painting, "Posthumous Portrait of Ria Munk III," combines loose brushwork and looser drawing, avoiding the claustrophobia busyness of some of his fully finished efforts.
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This is me working hard against my antlike tendencies, ingrained in me by my immigrant parents, modern-day hustle culture and our pervasive, status-quo American busyness.
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But this busyness is often a guise for something else: We procrastinate by doing mindless, distracting tasks that make us feel productive, but in reality accomplish little.
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"Being O.K. with having privacy in the context of busyness is a New York state of mind," said Jake Silverstein, editor of The New York Times Magazine.
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If we stopped blaming busyness, we might actually be forced to confront the real reasons why life can feel so exhaustingly impossible to keep up with sometimes.
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You have to resist the lure of busyness, make time for rest, take it seriously, and protect it from a world that is intent on stealing it.
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"Email is one of those tip-of-the-iceberg indicators" that we all operate in a culture that has come to value work and busyness above all else.
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Use the time to train the kids on skills like cooking and laundry, and any other chores you can't fit in during the busyness of the school year.
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Booking a resort a bit away from the busyness of Pattaya and parts of Sunrise Beach made my stay feel like a relaxing retreat from hoards of travelers.
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There's a forced sort of busyness to the film, an attempt to keep everyone hopping and frantic as they head toward a final meetup where Grindelwald… gives a speech.
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While wistful, the music shifts through moods and styles that alternately suggest tender folk songs, gently swaying dances, bursts of hushed busyness, bluesy melodies, even twangy hints of hoedown.
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Relatedly, as in Wayne's previous book, the campus novel "Loner," I couldn't help feeling that the busyness and extremity of the plot's denouement undercut the author's otherwise humane sensibility.
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It allows us and all the women involved [to] have so much time to be taken away from work, and shopping, and running errands, and just the busyness of life.
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The pace of mundane tasks hits the level of busyness between boredom and panic that could keep you toiling away like it's 1996 and humans aren't yet heading for obsolescence.
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The busyness of life can also mean less time spent together, which can cause many couples to get stuck in a rut as they do the same things day after day.
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T2 is a kaleidoscope of clever visual tricks—spot-on allusions to Raging Bull, myriad callbacks to specific shots from Trainspotting—that demonstrates that Boyle remains a master of kinetic busyness.
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Prepare yourself ahead of time for the bouts of busyness — or laziness — that are bound to arise by spending a few hours over the weekend meal prepping for the upcoming week.
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Even the design of this book conveys a sense of busyness with its extra-narrative material: technical diagrams, security photographs, equations and, when all else fails, doodles sprawled across the page.
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Tune in to this episode of The VICE Guide to Right Now Podcast to hear more from Kate on our relationship to leisure and busyness—and our obsession with saving time.
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As the chapters move along, it seems as if this is a book meant to show us her life — the magnitude of it, the busyness of it — rather than share it.
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That opening movement goes through dramatic shifts, from moments of dreamy lyricism, which Mr. Waarts shaped with melting beauty, to bursts of perpetual-motion busyness, which he dispatched with articulate fervor.
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Time zones, work, and just general busyness meant the four of us would be stuck leaving each other a string of voicemails before finally scheduling a time to talk via text.
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When the viewer swivels around to face the black paintings, the silent confidence of the dark group is a defiant challenge to the busyness on the other side of the room.
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He also talks about what it truly means to be an expert, why we should stop using busyness as a status symbol, and the virtues of knitting (or any other mindless hobby).
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While office culture dictates that during slow periods, one must orchestrate a careful song and dance of faux busyness, Takala secretly filmed herself simply sitting still, staring into space, doing absolutely nothing.
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The path of least resistance — accepting the habits of our current busyness culture and the technology that envelops us and keeps us perpetually connected — won't make us more productive or more fulfilled.
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My partner and I flew back to Virginia, and the busyness of catching up at work and preparing for the holidays distracted me from wondering when the news would hit the family grapevine.
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And in those long, vacant hours, free of clutter and busyness and traditional validation, we will have to learn how to sit with ourselves and discover the glory and meaning in that stillness.
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Rachel Browne, the film's lead actress, said in a telephone interview that she had managed to keep thoughts of the coronavirus at bay thanks to the busyness of being on a film set.
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The only chink in its armor is a bit of busyness in the suspension when you get near and above 70 miles per hour, but that's mostly a factor of the shortened wheelbase.
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It's easy to see how we got here: Our culture of busyness and flakiness, created and enabled by technology, allows us to avoid tough situations every day, and not just in our love lives.
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Meanwhile, if busyness was no longer an excuse, you might realize that you're avoiding said project because it's just too daunting, or you didn't get enough guidance, or simply don't have a necessary resource.
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There are powerful societal forces pushing us towards this mental trade-off, including the tendency to equate busyness with status, and the expectation that success requires managing every area of our lives without assistance.
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Some people were told their friend used money as an excuse ( "I don't have enough money"), some were told busyness was an excuse ("I don't have time"), and the rest received no excuse at all.
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Although an exact definition of Sino-Maximalism is hard to pin down, it might best be characterized as an aesthetic of "busyness," a disregard for epileptics and blank space, and a very text-heavy interface.
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Then again, there were complex tangles, like his late opera "La Mère Coupable" ("The Guilty Mother," 1965), a work chock-full of musical busyness, with the instruments often going one way and the singers another.
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Some people even use busyness as a form of procrastination (aka productive procrastination), with an endless to do list of easily check-off tasks that conveniently prevent you from getting to the more over-arching projects.
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"Just like life," another character says of watching the newsreel; he could be talking about the story itself and about the best of Kipling's fiction in general — its specificity, its busyness, its energy and depth of feeling.
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Shortly after my family moved to the Netherlands last summer, we discovered "zoekboeks" (pronounced "zhook-book") the genre of kids' picture books that invite you to search ("zoek") for characters, objects or events obscured by visual busyness.
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In another story, a man with cancer turns his struggle into a kind of permanent media campaign, a pixelated busyness under which the narrator spies desolation and a lesson about how, finally, none of us are linked in.
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The aerobics craze, propelled by Jane Fonda, took off in the 2320s when the hedonism that distinguished the '21990s began to give way to a new urban ethic of busyness, long hours and the march toward more and more money.
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The hectic, calculated busyness of "Mary Poppins Returns," by contrast, wears you out almost immediately, in part because every throwaway gag and narrative digression has been so vainly contrived to pay off in a flurry of climactic would-be surprises.
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That depends on other factors, but it's a good idea to give yourself between one and two hours of undistracted time in the morning before having to get the kids ready, rush off to work, or get involved in your daily busyness.
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The show essentially boils down to a display of sculptures and prints — both capturing a world of post-human decay, where the entropic mess kept in check by human busyness (think of imminent strangulation by dust or vegetation) is allowed unfettered reign.
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Although no act of violence or moment of unrest is commented on directly, the viewer's attention is continually drawn by the busyness of the visuals, with skirmishes often breaking out just beneath the still images or at the very edge of the frame.
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For all the searching that people are doing inside Silicon Valley, for all the feeling people have that it's too busy, that something is not quite right, the products they make keep pushing us further toward distraction, toward busyness, to being always and constantly on call.
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The surfaces are highly activated, and the overall effect is one of energy and inventiveness, but the part-to-whole and part-to-part interactions don't quite gel, succumbing to a breathless busyness rather than a solid push-and-pull, for lack of a better term.
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Yet there are other imperatives that bedevil the contemporary heirs of traditional female identity, for whom insouciance in the face of the domestic can seem a sort of political requirement, as though by ceasing to care about our homes we could prove our lack of triviality, our busyness, our equality.
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Written on his breaks, their title an invitation to us to read them on ours, the seemingly dashed-off lines celebrate the pleasure a mind can take in wandering through its own busyness: Creative practice can be meditative flow, but it can also be worthy of a Ricky Gervais punch line.
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But in an interview, Mr. Reich said his calculations showed that the utilization rate — the measure of busyness — was only likely to increase by a few percentage points, meaning drivers would be working only somewhat harder (about 2.5 minutes per hour on average in a plausible scenario) for significantly more pay (about 22.5 percent more per hour on average).
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He had himself almost convinced that the situation had the dimensions of a love affair, though in fact he'd exchanged no more than a few dozen words with her, whenever she named the price for his flat white and scone, and he shyly paid it, offering a line or two himself on the busyness of the town or the fineness of the weather.
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In the midst of all of this frenetic busyness, it is important to ask: Is the gig economy a scam distracting people from focusing on getting full-time jobs wth real benefits like paid vacation, sick days and low-cost health insurance, or is it an opportunity to cultivate lifestyle flexibility and freedom that most 9-5 jobs seem unwilling to give their employees?
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In between short bouts of actual work, I would huddle with a group of fellow employees to discuss the latest movie or book or concert that we had attended the previous night, with free tickets thanks to the generosity (and busyness) of David Fricke, the legendary Ramones-look-alike music editor; Anthony DeCurtis, the editor of the music review section; and Sid Holt, the de facto head editor of the magazine and my immediate boss.
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