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...they had class and they had sex. Ritzy Manhattan soirees were spiced with debates about what was real and what fantasy in Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad or Fellini's 8 1/2, about Antonioni's seductive use of existential ennui. And when foreign films didn't tax the brain, they stirred the loins. In pouty Brigitte Bardot, in statuesque peasant Sophia Loren, in the knowing rapture of Jeanne Moreau, Americans saw ideals of glamour more complex than Jayne Mansfield. Even Bergman gave you bosoms along with the angst. These films were invitations to European decadence; each American became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FELLINI GO HOME! | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

These are the same guys who decimate Brain Break every single night in the dining hall, raiding the food like they’re hoarding for Armageddon. The same d-bags who are in such a rush to put cream cheese on their bagel that they use the knife from the peanut butter jar, ensuring that no one with nut allergies can eat the cream cheese for the rest of the night...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: THE BELL LAP: Day of Depression | 10/19/2005 | See Source »

Mayer thinks it’s possible that a lot of the demands for late night dining will be assuaged once the Lamont Café and Loker Pub open next year, and Glazer says that offering better brain breaks and food in Loker would help...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Longer Dinner Hours Prove Elusive | 10/18/2005 | See Source »

...personalized like sandwiches. The correspondence comes in from trendspotters everywhere--a coffee shop in Istanbul or a library in Taipei--all part of Evers' network of more than 7,000 volunteers, most of whom have never met--and will never meet--their boss. "I call this effect the global brain," says Evers, 35. "People all over are having this international conversation about what's next, what's trendy. Our role is to serve as aggregator and to provide context...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trendspotting: Messengers of Cool | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...start. I contend that the situation was in no way secret. Non-Americans knew even before the war began that if the U.N. didn't run the postwar occupation, a disaster was inevitable. The U.S. is the dinosaur of modern conflict?all brute force with a peanut-size brain, completely outdated in a world where credibility comes first. Sam Smith Oxford, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

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