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...after reading it, I still have difficulty defining the nebulous and protean genre, which includes legal thrillers, spy thrillers, and action-adventures, and traces its lineage to a variety of authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, and Graham Greene...

Author: By Khalid Abdalla, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: After The ‘Thrill’ Is Gone... | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...long-running western, focusing on the work of the series' best-known directors, all the more fascinating and revealing. The set collects episodes and commentary from movie directors including Arthur Hiller (Love Story) and Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) as well as actor-directors like Dennis Weaver and William Conrad. In his commentary, Weaver explains why Gunsmoke used more long and midrange shots than TV does now. "We didn't have zoom lenses," he says, laughing. "You had to move the camera, and that took time, and time was money." For western fans and TV-history buffs alike, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Boffo TV Boxes | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

Progress is sure to come to a halt as vindictive Democrats distract the nation from its real work and focus its attention on an inconsequential gaff—the Iraq war. But without luminaries such as Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), who will remind us of the “enemy that’s a taxi cab driver in the daytime, but a killer at night?” Meanwhile, the government will throw away billions of dollars on lowering student loan interest rates and providing healthcare to more Americans...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: O, Woe is Me | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

EVERYONE WHO SMELLS LIKE ABRAMOFF Ew. Voters flushed a number of Congressmen tainted by (all together now!) disgraced superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, including Senator Conrad Burns and Representative Richard Pombo. We may soon find out whether it's possible to be viewed as too dirty to land a lobbyist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ana Log: Nov. 20, 2006 | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...Conrad Burns conceded defeat to Jon Tester on Thursday, acknowledging that a tight election had gone to the Democrats, Burns' campaign told the Associated Press bureau in Helena, Montana, in a written statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tester's Razor-Thin Victory in Montana | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

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