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That argument, Johnson emphasizes, "does not mean that Survivor will someday be viewed as our Heart of Darkness or Finding Nemo our Moby-Dick." Rather, apples to apples, today's pop media are far more challenging than yesterday's. The Sopranos' interlaced plots make Hill Street Blues look like a Barney video. Nemo tracks many more characters and story lines than did Bambi. And supposedly mindless shows like The Apprentice are graduate seminars compared with '70s trash like The Love Boat, requiring us to parse webs of relationships, motives and strategies. In today's media, says Johnson, "even the crap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Children, Eat Your Trash! | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...although it doesn't quite match Gaffney's best-case euphoria. Karl Rove has educated himself on issues as arcane as the vagaries of ethanol transport, and there is a drizzle of funds for research into alternative fuels in Bush's big fat energy bill. But the President and Dick Cheney, who has been in charge of energy policy, remain oilmen at heart, skeptical about a major Manhattan Project-style national campaign to redirect the energy market, mindful of the time and expense necessary to build a new infrastructure and the pipelines, refineries and fueling points necessary to exploit alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Hands-On Diplomacy | 4/30/2005 | See Source »

...acknowledge he has a temper and may not always have treated subordinates kindly, but they say Democrats are using Bolton's abrasive personality as an excuse to kill a nomination they oppose on ideological grounds. "If being occasionally tough and aggressive and abrasive were a problem," chided Vice President Dick Cheney, "a lot of members of the United States Senate wouldn't qualify." Said Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank where Bolton once worked: "This is not the outrage of sincere grownups over the malfeasance of a senior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Temper, Temper, Temper ... | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

When addressing national security, Gingrich made a reference to Abbot’s father—the sole Navy admiral appointed by Vice President Dick Cheney to evaluate the findings of a national security commission on which Gingrich also sat. Gingrich pointed to this appointment as a sign that the current administration, like past ones, has not appropriately addressed national security issues...

Author: By Eduardo E. Santacana, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gingrich Discusses Challenges | 4/20/2005 | See Source »

...Southern California, particularly the booming but arid San Diego area, to find additional sources of supply. While more water from Northern California's High Sierra may be available, the West's continued population boom and unpredictable circumstances like drought could lead to a savage squeeze. Says Colorado Governor Dick Lamm: "We're playing a climatic slot machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Splash in the Arid West | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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