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...warm summer night, the service proved a fitting setting for such star-studded grief. A "Thriller"-esque moon tinted orange by smoke from the nearby forest fires added to the dramatic backdrop. The specially built stage was adorned with six large bouquets of white lilies, white roses and green topiaries. Portraits of Jackson served as bookends for his casket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackson's Funeral: Family and Friends Say Goodbye | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...self-sabotage though, for as he witnessed the paralyzing effects of theory over action, Cortázar grew deeply suspicious of such a passive appreciation of words. In one of his early short stories, a character in a detective novel murders his reader as he sits quietly in a green velvet armchair flipping the pages. In “Hopscotch,” the pleasures of a linear plot are mocked in a substantial third section subtitled “Expendable Chapters,” the literary equivalent of a DVD bonus disc. This segment features additional scenes, stream...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cortázar’s Playful Magnum Opus | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...city rich with monuments commemorating a nation, the one that stands above all is a dented green wall 37 feet tall, 240 feet long, and some 310 feet from home plate down the left-field lane,” the bottle’s white script reads...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Absolut Unveils Beantown-Inspired Vodka Flavor | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...Bridgestone tire company. Hatoyama has been nicknamed "the alien" (some say because of his aloof nature, others because of his prominent eyes), and one of the most interesting things about him is his wife, a former actress who says her soul once visited Venus and found it "really green." (Read "Five Ways to Fix Japan's Economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's Next Leader | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...energetic and quirky figure who gives inspirational talks and calls herself a "life composer." In a book she wrote called Very Strange Things I've Encountered, she said her soul visited Venus on a triangular-shaped UFO. "It was a very beautiful place and it was really green," she wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's Next Leader | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

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