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...imagined the Soviet Union could collapse under its own dead weight. In that sense, Watchmen is another replay of the Nixon years to which Hollywood filmmakers are addicted - Frost/Nixon, Milk, etc. - and a period piece that may not resonate with audiences who weren't alive when Tricky Dick was in power. (Snyder says he was asked if Nixon could be replaced by George W. Bush; he wisely declined.) Set in the recent past, it features characters who cannot escape their own, more remote past. (See pictures of movie costumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen Review: (A Few) Moments of Greatness | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...Cheney, Dick • refusal of Bush to pardon goofily nicknamed underling of evokes huge furiousness in • refusal of to just shut up already annoys David Axelrod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...dope-smoking little brother, and just enough ska and reggae samples to hint at the existence of a precocious streak. There was a minor controversy over Allen's fondness for obscenities and Mockney (the British term for the upper-class affectation of a lower-class Cockney accent, ŕ la Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins), but even that advanced her charm as a real girl sticking up for herself, even if no one was actually trying to keep her down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pictures of Lily | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...what’s popular with students?’ and basically everyone used CliffsNotes. But they had some real flaws. We realized we’re at Harvard with all these awesome English majors—for example, the person who wrote the SparkNotes on Moby Dick wrote a summa thesis on Moby Dick, so it’s definitely one of the best study guides on Moby Dick on the planet. According to the Wall Street Journal, we had more Harvard grads working for us in ’99 than any other company in the world...

Author: By Catherine A. Zielinski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Sam A. Yagan ’99 | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...nearby Bryan College (founded in 1930 and named for the victor of the Scopes trial) will be holding a symposium called "War and Peace: 150 Years of Christian Encounters with Darwin." The symposium will explore how Darwin's On the Origin of Species challenged creationist views. Retired professor Dick Cornelius says the town is committed to hearing all sides of an argument, "even if it doesn't favor our position." The motto of Bryan College is "Christ above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Evolution Fight at Site of Scopes 'Monkey Trial' | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

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