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Could there be something to this strange piece of statistical derring-do? It's not impossible, but it would take a lot more research to tease out its true significance. Meanwhile, it's hard to say just what these correlations measure. "You have to be very definitive about what you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Watching TV Cause Autism? | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

They are also a vanishing breed: the war hero. Soldiers surely acted exemplarily in Korea, and Vietnam, and Iraq, but each of those conflicts exhausted the rooting interest of the American public, which eventually went looking not for battlefield derring-do but for statesmen who could clean up the mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: On Duty, Honor and Celebrity | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

These are ripoffs, not homages, but they are also emblematic of a movie that is essentially a special-effects extravaganza . It is, I think, a universal truth of movie making that effects are never funny. They can sometimes wow you, but they can't make you laugh, and Depp cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Johnny Depp in Bits and Pieces | 7/6/2006 | See Source »

That does not mean the picture is sedentary. It ranges the world from Paris to Brooklyn, with stopovers in London, Beirut, Israel, Spain (or their geographical stand-ins), and it is full of derring-do and suspense. (Best such sequence: a child innocently answers a call on an explosive-laden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spielberg Takes On Terror | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

Fortunately, the armed guards were music lovers. At once, they recognized the sensational 21-year-old pianist from Kiev who had had audiences from Moscow to Leningrad on their feet, cheering his pyrotechnical feats of pianistic derring-do. They gave only a perfunctory glance to his papers; instead, they crowded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vladimir Horowitz: The Prodigal Returns | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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