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...have lots of others too. There are things I review, and then there are things that I really like to use. Here's a short list of stuff I found and loved this year. At the top of my chart is my pair of Bang & Olufsen Form 2 headphones ($100). As someone who commutes by rail and therefore needs to drown out the train shouters on their cellular phones, I lusted after this pair of headphones for my Walkman for years. Comfortable as velvet earmuffs, the Form 2s deliver a luscious, fat sound. Plus they keep me at the forefront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Favorite Things | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...brought in less than expected at the box office. If the failure of these films starts a trend, then studios may begin to re-emphasize plot lines more over explosions. Though Hollywood may never become a mecca for high art, we can hope to receive a little more thematic bang for our buck. Alex M. Carter '00 is a history and literature concentrator in Dunster House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...

Author: By Alex Carter, | Title: Where Did the Plot Go? | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...almost midnight, and George Bush is asleep in his Moscow hotel suite when plainclothes police bang on the door. Through an interpreter from the Russian Foreign Ministry, they announce that they are placing the visiting former U.S. President under arrest on an extradition request from Iraq. He is charged with war crimes, including an air attack during the Gulf War that targeted an underground bomb shelter and killed hundreds of civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinochet Problem | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

Pandemonium reigns when the outlaw--800 lbs. of overfed, visibly upset black bear--emerges at a dead run from the basement crawl space. One cop fires orange paint, others rubber bullets. Searles shoots self-propelled flash-bang rockets. It may not seem so, but the "eviction" was meant kindly. California law permits the killing of bears caught in private homes. Folks in Mammoth Lakes, however, prefer a "bear spanking." "The meaner I can be," says Searles, who developed this kinder if not gentler approach, "the longer he'll live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mammoth Lakes, California: Can't We All Get Along? | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...untraditional and fantastic way. For a tastefully fresh take on both classic material and the Harvard theater scene, Guys and Dolls is a show that shouldn't be missed. They overcame the space problem; they overcame the funding problem; they're bringing a segregated arts scene together--bang, you've got a show...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Something Other Than Dolled-up Guys | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

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