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...Venice's tourist cafés. He spots Tony Gardner, a schmaltzy crooner whose heyday is well behind him, and gets roped into accompanying the singer while he serenades his wife, Lindy, from a gondola. What begins for Janeck as an unprecedented honor, in being party to a famous man's romantic outpouring, modulates to the realization that the gesture is despairing and valedictory. Lindy, now divorced from Gardner, reappears in "Nocturne," convalescing after facial surgery in a swanky L.A. hotel. Here she meets the narrator, Steve, who is her neighbor in the adjacent room and is there for identical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unhappy Endings | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...stop using the "That's what she said" joke made famous by The Office. Do you have the same problem, or is it only hard for me? Molly Kordares NEW YORK CITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for John Krasinski | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...form of digital narcissism, the toy of the moment for an attention-deficit-disordered culture. But as Johnson notes, the Twitter platform is ultimately about an accretion of tweets, the way hundreds of thousands of pixels form a detailed and complex digital image. Twitter underscores Marshall McLuhan's famous aphorism that the medium is the message--the idea that technological form shapes and determines the culture. McLuhan challenged the traditional notion that content--whether in print, in film or on television--is automatically more significant than the medium through which it is delivered. What we now accept is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology and Culture | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...Famous recluse J.D. SALINGER apparently not too reclusive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...daily. The second development came in the late 1870s with the invention of color lithography, which revolutionized advertising and packaging and helped developing brands strengthen their identities. Using this new technology, companies began including small cigarette cards in every box as premiums. These collectible trading cards depicted movie stars, famous athletes and even Native American chiefs. While they were eventually discontinued to save paper during World War II, some of the rarer cards, like former Pittsburgh Pirate Honus Wagner, still sell for more than $2 million today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cigarette Advertising | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

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