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...best tracks are those where the musical background is sufficiently engaging. In track three, “There’s Something Underwater,” Hynes enters with ukulele chords, leading into a swelling chorus that feels hymnal, reminiscent of an epic Sufjan Stevens’s song. It’s a simple composition, and while the lyrics are as predictable as on the rest of the album—Hynes seems to be striving the use the phrase “I miss you” a record number of times for a four minute song?...
Mason’s task is a bold one. After all, few read Homer’s “Odyssey” with the nagging feeling that something is missing from the story, and the epic is a touchstone for tales of travel and homecoming. As early as the first century BCE, Vergil was borrowing from the Greek epic to tell his own “Aeneid”; Leopold Bloom’s very different wandering in “Ulysses” set the bar almost impossibly high for modern adaptations. Mason’s book, then...
...become an actor. He grew up in Jaipur, a city of crumbling palaces in the north Indian desert, as the eldest son of a conservative, aristocratic Muslim family. The popular movies he watched in the 1960s, such as Mughal-E-Azam and Guide, were pure escape - gorgeous fantasies of epic love and tragedy. By the time he was a teenager in the 1970s, the socially conscious new wave of the 1960s - so-called parallel cinema - began to enter the mainstream, bringing Indians' everyday experiences to the big screen. Khan was transfixed. He had been an indifferent student at college...
Conservatism's achievement was matched by an equally epic failure: the implosion of the GOP moderates. The GOP endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment in every one of its party platforms from 1940 through '76. From 1970 to '74, Richard Nixon signed more environmental legislation than any other President in U.S. history. In '74, Nixon advanced a proposal for universal health coverage - decades before those offered by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. (See TIME's 2008 Person of the Year: Barack Obama...
...here and abroad, to earn back its husky $125 budget. Only Sherlock Holmes ($204 million) and The Book of Eli (which will hit $100 million before it's finished) have capitalized on blood and fisticuffs. Indeed, depending on whether you count Avatar as a love story or a war epic (it's both), it's been three months since an unadulterated guy movie took the top spot: 2012, on the weekend of Nov. 13-15. Since then: New Moon, The Blind Side, The Princess and the Frog, Avatar, Dear John and Valentine...