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...same goes for the genre. Adams’ habit of simultaneously embracing volatile extremes leads him to write an incisive lyric in one verse and a terrible one the next. “Wish You Were Here” starts with the wonderfully evocative line “Cotton candy and a rotten mouth,” then devolves into boring rain imagery and whining: “It’s totally fucked up / I’m totally fucked up.” On the solid “Burning Photographs,” Adams finds another winner...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOR THE RECORD: Ryan Adams | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...career pivot from John Grisham to a Romanian mythologist. In 2004 the director was much like Matei before the lightning struck; he was frustrated and grappling with a consuming project he couldn't complete. He'd spent most of the '80s and '90s making forgettable films like The Cotton Club and Jack to pay off the enormous debts he had incurred on such experiments as his 1982 musical, One from the Heart. Though there were bright spots, like The Outsiders and Peggy Sue Got Married, most of Coppola's studio pictures during this time left the director and his fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coppola, Take 2 | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...Clinton was the sort of President who inspires a special frenzy in his opponents - Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon were others - because he takes the more accessible parts of their agendas and adopts them. Hillary Clinton inspired an even greater frenzy because she was a gender revolutionary, transforming the cotton-candy role of First Lady into a power position. She wasn't nearly as charming as her husband either. And she seemed ... tougher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Hillary Believes | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...farm supports has stalled the talks, kneecapping American firms ranging from Microsoft to FedEx to Anheuser-Busch, and even American farmers who rely on exports. "The problem is a vested political constituency that's absolutely committed to the status quo," says retired California Congressman Cal Dooley, a former cotton and walnut farmer who leads the Grocery Manufacturers Association. "That's the main obstacle to free trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Our Farm Policy Is Failing | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

When I tutored in Dorchester, part of my work was helping kids leave their apartment complexes on daytrips to urban educational resources like the aquarium or the museum. But here in the Achievement Abyss, there is no aquarium, only endless cotton fields and rusty farming equipment...

Author: By Charles J. Mcnamara | Title: Teaching for America, In Rural Arkansas | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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