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...They stepped out on a limb, and they were met with critical acclaim. Almost immediately, Second City set a standard for smart social and political satire. In March 1960, TIME wrote, "The audiences keep coming back to the Second City, on Chicago's North Wells St., where the declining skill of satire is kept alive with brilliance and flourish." (See 10 things to do in Chicago...
...house provocateur and a fierce critic of big-budget, Hollywood movies. And yet his films have recently started to attract more mainstream audiences and enjoy commercial success. Four years after his thriller Hidden earned a respectable $16 million at the box office worldwide, he is garnering critical acclaim and snapping up awards for his latest film, The White Ribbon. The movie, released this fall in Europe and set to open in December in the U.S., won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and is generating Oscar buzz as a possible candidate for best foreign...
When asked by a member of the audience about his prediction for Isreal’s response to Iran’s nuclear weapon program, Eitam—a former Israeli war hero who gained acclaim for his bravery in the Yom Kippur War—responded that it was “almost inevitable that military action will be taken...
...Colorado mountain. Record times have fallen from close to three hours a century ago to close to two hours today, with Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie setting the current record in Berlin last year with a time of 2 hr. 3 min. 59 sec. (A fellow Ethiopian, Abebe Bikila, won worldwide acclaim after setting a record at the 1960 Olympics in Rome - running barefoot - and another in Tokyo four years later wearing shoes.) Radcliffe, the 2008 New York winner, set the women's record in 2003, breaking the tape in London in 2 hr. 15 min. 25 sec. (Read "Detroit's Marathon...
Last year, Laura Marling released her debut album, “Alas I Cannot Swim,” to much critical acclaim. She was, in fact, nominated for the prestigious 2008 Barclaycard Mercury Prize, which honors recorded music by British and Irish artists. And she’s still just a teenager...