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TIME: This is a novel of observation, how people act, what they feel. It?s realistic, not fanciful. How do you research such a story? Did you "interview" people in galleries and restaurants? Perhaps you delicately stalked someone at the Neiman?s glove counter?
One of the legacies of Watergate is that even the hint of skulduggery during a presidential campaign snowballs into a political scandal - often before anything resembling the truth is known. In the two weeks since a videotape and more than 100 pages of George W. Bush's debate preparation material...
Picture a toddler playing with Legos or Tinker Toys. Without any instruction, she tries putting them together. Finally, after a lot of trial and error, she assembles a little machine that actually does something. Much to her delight, it chugs along the floor like some fanciful arthropod out of A...
Mark Morris, who loves opera almost as much as modern dance, has cooked up a new version of Four Saints in Three Acts, the 1934 surrealist collaboration between Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein. This production, which blends dance, mime and slapstick in the fanciful Morris manner, had its world premiere...
And that's pretty tame compared with some of the more fanciful ideas that are being floated. Lauder is studying shock proteins, which are released by the body in response to stress, in the hopes of preventing the formation of free radicals. Yale's Perricone is pushing the theory that...