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Gerald M. Levin officially stepped down as CEO of AOL Time Warner last week, bringing to a close a remarkable business career. For the past 10 years he has sat atop a media empire whose vast holdings include Time Inc., publisher of scores of magazines, including TIME. There has been plenty written about Jerry's business career in these pages and elsewhere. But inside the Time & Life Building, he will be best remembered as a fierce advocate for the editorial excellence and journalistic integrity of our publications...
...overwhelming advantage in any conventional military confrontation, Pakistan won't necessarily fight a conventional war. For years it has pursued the Kashmir conflict through the proxy of Islamist guerrillas and terrorists. And although its nuclear doctrine is not yet clear, recent reports suggest that Pakistan actually mounted nuclear warheads atop missiles during the 1999 showdown with India over the Kargil section of Kashmir. Washington now has the unhappy task of averting a conflict every bit as intractable as the Israeli-Palestinian one, but with nuclear weapons on both sides...
...racist. Or, anyway, a shade-ist. Over and over he filmed the scenario of a light-skinned women passing as white, and a dark-skinned man ignoring a women of his own shade to aspire to that wan princess. Her lightness put her atop the hierarchy of virtue or, at least, of perceived romantic appeal. Like Griffith, Micheaux's feminine ideal seemed to be prim, virginal Lillian Gish; he insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense of the new film is its persistent vaunting of intra-racial color fetishism, "wrote...
Just down the hall from her office, an enlarged, autographed photo portrait of Julia Child stands atop an easel—one of many pieces of memorabilia in the room dedicated to the colorful TV personality who charmed audiences with her culinary panache...
...piece here is “Tart,” the best thing Costello’s written since 1978. It’s constructed atop a beautiful piano line and a fuzzy, walking bassline. Costello has always loved a pun, and he has more fun than he’s had in years: “Is it something you crave?/ ’Cause you say that you only feel bitterness/ Would it kill you to show us a little sweetness?” The song is most impressive for its dynamics: Costello dryly lights into the unnamed...