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...appeal is obviously the purported clash of class structures which really isn’t true,” Denner says. “It’s a fault line that the media can run with...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Year in Crime | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...about the cheese," she says after eliminating two subpar goat cheeses from the Balthazar selection. She also has strong opinions about the wine. "It needs to breathe for several generations. It will be very good one day." The desserts, however--pineapple upside-down cake, fruit focaccia and tarte tatin--appeal to her in all their Rubenesque unsubtlety. And as she removes the last bit of buttery glazed apple from my plate, she insists that she never worries about what physical havoc her eating habits may cause. "I try to exercise, but I don't have any muscles. Every cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excess Is Hardly Enough | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...that fuel Murakami's career.) Murakami purposely engineers a neo-Pop Art universality to his work, making his art both effortlessly accessible and intellectually provocative?an ingenious feat. His sometimes sincere, usually ironic, often disturbing plays on the empty smiles and bright colors of cartoon cute are designed to appeal to the preteen in Tokyo who just wants a cell-phone strap with an adorable character on it, while also attracting the attention of the doctoral student in Frankfurt forever hunting for subversive subtexts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Move Over, Andy Warhol | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...writing itself. To understand more precisely the way(s) in which Steinbeck’s use of the rabbit-as-metaphor eclipses the rabbit qua rabbit, or even as reified rodent—furry symbol of proliferation—let us consider more closely Lennie’s appeal to George: “Tell me ’bout the rabbits.…” This single poignant remark is nothing less than Steinbeck giving voice to the tacit cry of the reader, who in the process of reading this novel implicitly implores the author...

Author: By Madeleine S. Elfenbein, | Title: Old Rabbits Die Hard | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...appeal to the advertisers, though, with its time-honored, if a touch crass, pitch that it has the richest viewers of any broadcast network. It's true. If NBC were a neighborhood, you couldn't afford to live there. Its most platinum-plated drama, "The West Wing," has an average viewer household income of over $75,000 - $10,000 higher than the second-richest show, "Ed," also on NBC. (A fact that probably kept the incessantly quirky bowling-alley drama on the air despite its middling ratings - while other shows with more viewers but fewer SUV buyers got canceled.) Zucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upfronts: NBC's Nervous Reality | 5/13/2003 | See Source »

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