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...detect the tramping of sour grapes. To read a piece about online reviewers by a critic who has done most of his work in print is to hear the roar of a dinosaur, noisy but anachronistic, trying to drown out a freeway full of SUV?s. And I admit this: I share your cynicism. General-interest magazines like TIME have reduced the space devoted to reviews and expand their entertainment "news" coverage. The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill. That?s why many of us have...
...rest of the summer interviewing people who were blind and writing about their experiences. But as much as I learned from those people, nothing jarred me quite as much as my library visit did. I’m a Harvard student, I don’t like to admit that I cannot understand something. It was during those three hours that I began to understand that blindness is not trying to reconstruct the visual world, but of learning non-visual ways to experience the world. One man told me in an interview that his definition of “pretty?...
...Still, the Russian political and military brass would much rather let the Barents sea keep the evidence of their own fault than ever admit it, believes Vice-Admiral (R) Yevgeni Chernov. A sailor with 33 years experience in the silent service and once a fabled commander of the Northern Fleet nuclear submarines, Chernov contends that the raising operation was intentionally launched as a cover-up to leave the Kursk on the sea floor...
...persisted. Even her maid started to use it. "She was very black and now she's brown," says Kariuki. A few months ago, after reading of the dangers of many of the creams, Kariuki decided to stop. "Those creams are bad," she says now. "But no one wants to admit...
...have myself written a couple of memoirs (called "The Chief" and "Heart"). I admit there is something hilarious in my having done so, especially at a comparatively young age. One autobiography would be bad enough, but TWO? While working on the second, I ran into the humorist Christopher Buckley at a party. He asked, "Well, what are we up to now? 'The Hinge of Fate?' 'The Gathering Storm...