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...This degree of anonymous strife and petulance would certainly threaten any great novel’s composition: Imagine if Melville and Hawthorne had been sniping at one another out in antebellum Western Massachusetts, instead of spending spring days together. There might be no Moby Dick, no Scarlet Letter. High-school reading lists would, frankly, become much more tolerable...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: A Mere Novelty? | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

Tony is an arms dealer, an occupation that has fascinated playwrights for ages (George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman, Arthur Miller in All My Sons) and accounts for some of the evil-genius rep of Halliburton's gift to governance, Dick Cheney. In his first appearance in the March 1963 issue of Tales of Suspense, as written by Stan Lee and his brother Larry Lieber, and illustrated by Kirby and Don Heck, Stark was inspired by Howard Hughes in his Spruce Goose phase: titan of industry, crackerjack engineer-inventor, indefatigable wooer of Hollywood actresses. (Later in the decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Iron Man': A Movie Marvel | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...against them are the North Korea skeptics, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, who argue that North Korea has no intention of giving up its nukes, no matter what agreements it signs. The most vocal of this group is Bush's former U.N. representative John Bolton, who likens the State Department to a drunk searching for his car keys near a lamppost, even though he knows he left them in the bar. Asked by a passerby why he keeps looking near the lamppost, the drunk replies: "Because the light is better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Damascus | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...family of Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor [April 21]. It sickens me, however, to see a photograph of George W. Bush with a tear in his eye over an Iraq war casualty. Monsoor's death and those of tens of thousands more did not have to happen. Bush and Dick Cheney are ultimately responsible for this tragedy. Steven T. Callan, PALO CEDRO, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unearthing Obama's Roots | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...films are with exploiting the humor in the positively unimpressive masculinity of his male characters.While there’s nothing wrong with guys making movies for guys about guys, when I see women making movies that are about women but eschew whatever the female equivalent of a dick-joke is, I get a grin in the corner of my mouth. I get excited that there might be more than one acceptable way to make a comedy that stars same-sex actors as its leads and excited that the boys might get hip to the fact that there are other ways...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: When Boys Just Wanna Have Fun | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

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