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When do you believe Brock--then or now? Lying is easy. Recanting is hard. Brock Then was a lone, unverifiable challenge to what Mayer calls "the facts as we always knew them to be." Brock Now provides enough detail to fact-check his current version. Even if that version proves true, Thomas probably broke no law. But nominees for the Supreme Court should meet a higher standard than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pleading Guilty | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

Pynchon created epic modernism. He took the detail-saturated realism of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, removed it from the confining world of marriage problems and parental blame and everything else that has made novels so small, and used it as a lens for Greek-size tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist: The Case For Thomas Pynchon | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...fashion statement of a certain neurological perspective?even if they aren't 'shrooming themselves, they are channeling the subculture. The lucky ones might have their pictures snapped by a roving photographer for a magazine like Fruits or Kera, two youthful publications that document Tokyo street fashion with uncompromising detail for a suburban readership hungry for news about the antics of Tokyo's crazy in-crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo Takes a Trip | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...Fatal Coincidences" is the museum's first attempt to establish a filmmaker's oeuvre within the context of the other arts. The show is on until Sept. 24. Influential paintings, sculptures, novels, storyboards, stills, film clips and photographs play off each other to reveal the filmmaker's obsession with detail that elevated his movies above the level of mere entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fine Art of Fear | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...folks in Washington fight over are trivial; we don't know what to do when we come up against a matter of life and death. If Chandra was a good friend, wouldn't Condit be more stricken? Isn't he betraying whatever friendship they had by not volunteering every detail about their relationship? The only way his conduct makes sense is if he's slavishly heeding the advice of all criminal attorneys: say nothing, for it could be used against you. But that makes him look guilty and hardhearted, whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presumed Innocent | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

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