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...could dispute that the result is formidably learned. Eco’s knowledge is vast, and, under only the vaguest pretenses of narrative, “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana” lets him broach subjects ranging from Dante’s Inferno to Dick Tracy comics...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Novel Probes Postmodern Predicament Via Protagonist’s Selective Amnesia | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

...with 50 artists on flat-screen computers working on A Scanner Darkly. They're using the same rotoscope process used in Waking Life to turn tape of Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson into cartoons for Linklater's adaptation of the novel by Philip K. Dick, whose stories have been turned into Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report. Linklater has managed to make A Scanner Darkly as a $3 million indie, getting the actors to work for scale, Dick's daughters to give up the book's rights cheap and, from the looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Having a Ball | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

...hands full dealing with doping track stars and unprepared host cities. But this month the committee is tackling a new threat to sportsmanship: comedians. The agency said it would sue the ImprovOlympic--a 24-year-old Chicago club that launched comics Mike Myers, Tina Fey and Andy Dick--if it doesn't change its name. "It is confusing," says Dick. "I wandered in there with my discus once." Rather than duke it out over the trademark of the word olympic, the club and its L.A. outpost will now be called I.O. The seven dirty words, luckily for the comics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: But Andy Ain't No Luger ... | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...left and the right and bringing her considerable intellect to bear on the questions before her. She didn't just cast the final verdict--she helped shape important new law. For instance, it was O'Connor as much as Rehnquist, says University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard, who revived the doctrine of states' rights. The current court has knocked down more federal laws and upheld state sovereignty more often than any other in history, invalidating among other statutes a law that banned guns in school zones, part of the Violence Against Women Act and part of the Brady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Broker | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

...They're very well treated down there. They're living in the tropics. They're well fed." DICK CHENEY, U.S. Vice President, defending the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in light of allegations of inmate abuse and unjust detention

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/25/2005 | See Source »

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