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...spot, a man runs the bases in an empty Yankee Stadium, sliding headfirst into home. Why, it's Henry Kissinger! He brushes the dirt off his face and says something that's supposed to sound like "Derek who?" In another, ROBERT DE NIRO, on a Thanksgiving parade float with BILLY CRYSTAL, yells, "Are you gobblin' at me?" In yet another, Yogi Berra conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra before asking "Who is this Phil Harmonic?" And in the most disturbing spot, a woman at a diner orders a "Ben Stiller with a side of bacon," at which point Ben Stiller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 19, 2001 | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...paradox. It is an “autobiographical documentary” about the world of high fashion, of glitzy entertainment, of celebrity—essentially of people who create and inhabit sublime artificial realities. Bright colors, strange costumes and set pieces command its filmic landscape. Fabulous and freakish personalities float past the lens. We lucky spectators get nice heaping eyefuls of homoerotic icons, fashion designers, super athletes, bright shining Stars, surfer dudes, tragically hip youth, quadriplegic artists. Everything is ready for its close-up; everything is so chock full of life and attitude, it sometimes feels too full...

Author: By Emma Firestone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chopped Up Vignettes with Nowhere to Go | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

...NEUTRALIZE THE SPORES Chemicals such as bentonite or silica are added to remove the electrostatic charge and allow the tiny particles to float...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Anthrax Is Weaponized... | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...active ingredients could yield 10 kilotons of explosive power--a Hiroshima-size weapon. Even if the terrorists didn't get the recipe quite right, a 1-kiloton yield could still devastate a city. And forget the suitcase: a truck will do, or a container ship to float the bomb into an American port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Nuke Really Fit Into A Suitcase? | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...moving painting, at times very representational, at others more blockish and abstract. Each of the animators has been assigned a separate character or scene, and their different styles come across in the varying levels of surrealism. Some scenes simply look like grainy photographs, while others are dizzyingly wacky. Lips float off of faces. Walls refuse to hold still. As we follow the nameless central character (Wiley Wiggins, an alumnus of Dazed and Confused) through a wiggly, trippy dreamscape, we begin to wonder along with him whether it is all real. We recognize the famous faces and voices of the likes...

Author: By Benjamin W. Olsen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Animation Evolves in Linklater's Waking Life | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

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