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He keeps the characters at arm's length: When the doctor treats a half-naked woman who has overdosed in Ziegler's commodious commode, the shot is another of those fisheye specials that makes the space seem cavernous yet oppressive; Kubrick seems more alert to the color scheme--the towel that covers her breasts matches the turquoise of the shower--than to the woman's suffering (which will later be of more than passing significance).
Before Ressam's arrest, Berger saw no need to raise a public alarm at home- although the FBI put all field offices on alert.
But I only need to use your examples as proof that what the Internet has wrought in an unbelievably short time has been profound--the entire computer industry (as evidenced by Michael Dell's success) has been turned on its ear, the retail industry is reeling (did you see the many news stories today about Nordstrom's striking a deal with a well-known Silicon Valley venture firm to jumpstart its Web efforts?), and traditional media companies are in full-scale alert.
But even managers who try to stay alert to these forces often gather their information anecdotally or informally.
In the House, defenders and plotters of last July's attempted coup remain in a state of high paranoid alert.