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...known for its showers. Not known for its flowers. Not busting out all over. Not. There is no August Song, and if there were one, it would be sung by Yma Sumac in an altitudinous register no one could hear but a dozing dog, who would cock not an ear, stir not a bone. Not. These are dog days, after all, in which the mind, suddenly deserted, goes nuts and nowhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise of August | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...warned: this is not the Altman of M * A * S * H and Nashville, the funky satirist with an ear for low-life Americana. It is the European Altman, who in Images and 3 Women and Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean threw sensitive women into the nightmare zone between past and present, reality and fantasy. In Fool for Love, he situates May's sad childhood literally next door to her fated present and sets Eddie's monologue memories colliding with the flashback images that accompany them. You can have some cerebral fun with this game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desert Dust:FOOL FOR LOVE | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...friend is freedom. It did most of the work for him in Geneva. It was on his shoulder when he was walking Mikhail Gorbachev down toward the lake. It was tiptoeing around the room in the Château Fleur d'Eau and may even have whispered in Gorbachev's ear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: On a Free Stage | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...earned a reputation as a brute inside and outside the ring. In 1992 he was convicted of raping a woman in Indiana and spent three years in prison. He was suspended from boxing in 1997 for a year after he bit off a piece of opponent Evander Holyfield's ear. In his final fight, Tyson threw in the towel at the end of the sixth round, but not before head-butting McBride and trying to break his left arm. "I don't have the stomach for [boxing] anymore," Tyson said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

...chorus also turns on its ear the perception of what it means to grow old. Twenty-two years ago while working a lunch shift at a senior center, Cilman conceived the idea of having elders entertain, but it wasn't until a year later that he got a group together. Initially it did community performances, but in 1997 Cilman took the troupe to Holland for its first overseas appearance. These days Young@Heart confines itself to just a couple of local gigs, at which the performers get an equally exuberant reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock on, Grandpa! | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

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