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...Elizabethan poet. Perhaps, if we can truly understand this greatest of works, our self-understanding will be complete. Perhaps this is His true Revelation, set before us in an infinitely-layered riddle, a Gordian knot that not even the sword of Alexander could hope to break. And the genius of the riddle is that though it can never be fully unwound, it brings you tantalizingly close to understanding its secrets, and through it, perhaps, the secrets our very existence...

Author: By Andrew P. Winerman, | Title: The Play's the Thing! | 9/18/2002 | See Source »

...experiences, sites for little emotional excursions whose purpose is to hunt-and-gather but also to feel good about what is gathered. The new Apple Computer stores, designed by Gensler, a firm far more conservative than Rockwell's, attempt this with nooks for different computing activities, including a Genius Bar, where geeks can gather and ask questions of an expert. The Toys "R" Us in New York City's Times Square, also by Gensler, is similarly divided into zones that let children act out their fantasies: Barbie merchandise is displayed in a life-size dream house, and an animatronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating Spaces | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...porcelain bathtub and reminisces about her happy days of youth?before she became a cold-blooded killer. Her sister Sue (Zhao Wei), clad in terry cloth hot pants and a skimpy tank top, comes in to ask for career advice. She isn't satisfied being the computer genius of the criminal duo, and wants to do some killing too. Lynn scoffingly kicks her with a long, soapy leg, setting off a wet kung fu fight that is saved from going soft-porn only by judicious editing and a large white towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triple Whammy | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...vibrations that can be felt on the skin. Kanevsky created it to help him learn to lip-read the speech of new acquaintances. He marketed the product through an Israeli company and still wears the original device on his arm. IBM's speech-research team, impressed by his math genius and practical inventiveness, outbid others to bring him to the company's Yorktown Heights, N.Y., research facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Listener | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...such works as Washington Crossing the Delaware, a parody of the famous American painting. A saxophonist, writer and sometime actor (appearing in the Beat-era underground film Pull My Daisy), he was both self-promoting and self-deprecating. Hospitalized once in the '80s, he envisioned his obituary headline as GENIUS OF THE VULGAR DIES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 26, 2002 | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

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