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JIMMY CARTER With his Revolutionary War book, The Hornet's Nest, Carter became the only President so far to try fiction--and admit it openly...
Whatever combination of exotic or mundane things sleep turns out to be for, researchers admit they still don't know the ideal amount of it needed to keep our bodies and brains in good working order. "There's this enormous commercial push now to convince people that if they don't get eight hours of sleep a night, there's something wrong with them," Siegel says. But in fact, there's more mythology than substance to the eight-hour figure. Back in the 1980s, a survey of more than 1 million people found that those who slept more than...
...Jeunet is a bit of the temperamental “arteest” and finds it hard to speak about his style, which is known for having every frame look like a painting. He explains his process as driven simply by instinct, though he does admit to finding inspiration in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, two classics by notoriously perfectionist auteurs...
...that one of things he likes in his work is that it exposes multiple options of meaning and interpretation, that it precludes the possibility of adopting any single, authoritative position. I certainly would never advocate anything as reactionary as an authoritative model of meaning production, but I have to admit I think I might be interested in making a stand for particularity in meaning, or at least in re-opening a discussion of its possibility. Suppose we were to push beyond self-reflexivity and personal and historical reference—what new possibilities for meaning might we find? Of course...
...Moonboots”—For our December 2 scrutiny on Style, we knew we had to have a picture of the fad-tastic puffy Moonboots we’d seen adorning feet all over the Yard. However, we must come clean and admit that the “Moonboots” in our magazine were actually not genuine, veritable Moonboot brand, but Veronique’s “Snowboots” she bought in Paris. When...