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...Democrats win the presidency in 2008, the clash between a more conservative Supreme Court and a more liberal White House and Congress might reach historic proportions. "You could have significant conflict between the court and the political branches, one that we probably haven't seen since the 1930s," Samuel Issacharoff of the New York University School of Law has suggested. Yet throughout American history, the President and Congress have gotten angry at the court only when it frustrated the will of a large national majority. In many cases in which the Roberts Court is turning right, it appears to have...
...here. In fact, last year, a survey of Central Texans found most didn't know where their water came from. Most of us simply think of the Highland Lakes as a recreational resource. But the necklace of man-made lakes that control the Colorado River were built in the 1930s to harness deadly floodwaters and provide water and electricity to the region...
...brilliantly written review). Nor can I agree with the declaration of my friend Richard Schickel, here on TIME.com, that "Apatow, represents, for the moment at least, the best in American movie comedy ... a throwback to the kind of screenwriters who created the classic romantic comedies of the 1930s...
...every indication of enjoying themselves), I laughed here and there, didn't build up a raging animosity. But I was very much on the outside of the experience. I felt like an entomologist observing some strange, yet strangely familiar new species. Then I realized what I was seeing: a 1930s movie in contemporarily grungy garb. And I don't mean that as a compliment to Knocked Up - that it has a clever plot or dazzling dialogue. Long ago I wrote a book on Hollywood screenwriters (the 1974 Talking Pictures), and in that spirit I have one or two tuts...
...Land Far, Far Away ... James Poniewozik was absolutely right in saying that the Shrek movies are really for him and not the kids [May 28]. Tex Avery's cartoons (starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig) and many other cartoons of the 1930s and '40s include jokes that kids don't have the cultural experience to understand. Shrek is the same. Do kids still need wonder and magic? Of course they do. Do they need classic stories turned into happily-ever-after tripe that doesn't even resemble the original? Absolutely not. Poniewozik only alluded to the fact that...