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...recognize the moment; we have all, at one time or another, felt the shock and disbelief of the decisive stroke that alters everything. It strikes the famous and the obscure impartially. I knew an aged cowboy in West Texas, with the unlikely name of Cecil, who was driving down a highway one morning and took his eyes off the road in order to reach for his tobacco pouch, and veered fatally into the path of an eighteen-wheeler...
With high art butting up against crass industry, and the sublime meeting the slime, Cannes is catnip for a connoisseur of bad taste like trash auteur John Waters, who showed his fizzy anarchistic jape Cecil B. Demented out of competition. "When I hear people say they hate the festival," he told TIME's Jeffrey Ressner, "I wonder why they bother to stay in show business." Cecil B. was typical of the American films premiering at Cannes this year. Ribald or sedate, they were all off-Hollywood. The Coen brothers offered a surprisingly genial odyssey, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, with...
...still somber note, Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker received a two-and-a-half-month suspension and $20,000 fine Monday for his recent tirade against immigrants and minorities. And that's just in the last couple of days. Last month 23-year-old Miami Dolphins running back Cecil Collins was arrested for breaking and entering, while Charlotte Hornets guard Bobby Phills killed himself drag-racing Porsches with a teammate...
...space worldwide. Gates seems to view new technology as either a threat to his company or an opportunity to make more money and gain even more control of the market. Jobs responds to new technology by dreaming up ways to make it available to ordinary people like me. MATTHEW CECIL Iowa City...
...school, friends and family. Some students work to save for college or to help their parents pay the bills, but most do it for cars, insurance and clothes. "Working lets me establish my independence," says senior Nick McCormick, who, somewhere between varsity-football practice and homework, makes pizza at Cecil Whittaker's three nights a week. "And I'm saving up to buy a car." Teachers and parents here recognize the value of introducing kids to the "real world," but with paychecks competing with grades and late-night shifts rivaling term-paper deadlines, more and more students are asking...