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...Liam Neeson sits on a bed on the left side of the stage; on the right side is a blank wall on which his face is projected in closeup, as a woman's voice softly, insistently works its way into his head. "Anyone living love you now, Joe? Anyone living sorry for you now? That slut that comes on Saturday, you pay her, don't you? Penny a hoist, tuppence as long as you like." Once another woman did love him, and he shrugged her off, and she tried killing herself several ways, until one worked. And Neeson stares ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samuel Beckett: Dead Laughing | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

...miles a day) vs. 0.3 miles per day for inactive mice. While the exercise wheels of the activity-prone mice would turn all night, some of the sedentary mice devised ingenious ways to avoid activity. One stuffed wood shavings around the wheel and turned it into a bed; one used it as an, ahem, toilet; and one climbed on top of her wheel only to get a better look at the overhead sensors tracking her movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Laziness Gene? | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

...more than one way for them to glorify God. On a recent Saturday evening, after four days of recording in Dublin, Eugene drove three hours to his home in Ballyclare. Sometime after 10 p.m., he made final tweaks to the church newsletter before saying his prayers and going to bed. The next morning he delivered a sermon reminding parishioners that they must constantly nurture their relationship with the Lord. "As with any garden," he said, "if you don't tend to it, the weeds begin to take over." Good advice to those nurturing any vocation, from the recording studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Singing Priests of Belfast | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

...free Presidential election for 24 years. Egypt loved him right back, but as a mother adores her son (like Mrs. Iselin toward Raymond in The Manchurian Candidate). When Chahine behaved well and got festival prizes, Egypt was proud; when he criticized powerful political interests, she sent him to bed without supper. His epic Once Upon a Time on the Nile, about the building of the Aswan Dam, was the first Egyptian-Soviet coproduction, but both sponsors were displeased by the director's cut, demanding reshooting and re-editing. The film, begun in 1968, was not released until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youssef Chahine: From Egypt With Love and Anger | 7/29/2008 | See Source »

...bipartisan congressional commission to chop up spending. The goal, says Holtz-Eakin, is to return to the fiscal discipline of the late 1990s, when then President Bill Clinton struck a deal with a Republican Congress to limit spending increases. "People write [new spending] initiatives like they get out of bed these days," says the adviser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Candidates' Tax Plans: Fuzzy Math | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

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