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...animation studio's most ambitious projects, they both had a high satisfaction quotient. No wonder: the canine attributes of curiosity, affection and unshakable loyalty are an ideal fit for Disney family values of any era. (Cats, not so much.) From the live-action pup opera Old Yeller in the '50s, to the mixed-media friskiness of this fall's Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Disney has paraded and profited from its pooch panache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolt: Dog Gone Disney | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

This is aimed mostly for people doing long-term planning, and if you're in your 40s or 50s, you're not going to consider a career as a physician. However, there are certain occupations in here that require much less education and training, and you could make a move into those. For example, police dispatchers need only moderate-term on-the-job training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Recession-Proof Jobs Are | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...useful thing about a book like Adriŕ's (wildest recipe: preserved tuna-oil air) might be a glimpse into the future. Techniques that start in restaurants often make their way into the home. Says Tim Ryan, president of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y.: "In the '50s and '60s, microwaves were very cutting edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Cooks, Meet Molecular Gastronomy | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Victorian England, the play would be all 20 white men and women, and that is not representative of theater at Harvard.” But through a dramatic change in temporal setting—the play is set in the late 50s and early 60s instead of the 20s—and the inclusion of more female roles to signify the emergence of women in the workplace, the end result yields a startling change: a newly revised cast list that includes five female and three male reporters. “Traditionally, there are fewer roles for women...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Redefined Roles Run in 'The Front Page' | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...encouraged to look and even stare. (This was such a new-fangled notion that some department stores had to hire professional “window gazers” to help the trend catch on.) Bu ilding on these earlier techniques of layout and design, department store windows of the 50s and 60s were the context in which art and fashion literally merged. Window dressers began to use actual works of art from emerging artists as the background to their displays. Fun fact: it was in show windows, not art museums, that artists such as Warhol and Jasper Johns first...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Art Meets Commerce in the Store Window | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

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