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...other hand, animated films have an infinite life cycle. "Snow White has sold 28 million copies, and it's a 60-year-old production," Jobs points out. "People don't read Herodotus or Homer to their kids anymore, but everybody watches movies. These are our myths today. Disney puts those myths into our culture, and hopefully Pixar will too. At Pixar we're just getting started, and it's very magical. It's like the computer industry was in the early days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEVE'S JOB: RESTART APPLE | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

Inning six, Boston: Someone hits a ball toward our section, which could probably seat more than 3,675. The fly ball falls short of being a homer. We go back to observing efforts to start the wave. Loud, sustained booing follows the failures of some sections until people get into the act and three complete circles are made...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Two Sides of America's Favorite Pastime | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

...could she have known who played Dynasty's Alexis Carrington Colby? Or had time to care? Till she was 14, Jewel Kilcher grew up in an unelectrified log cabin on an 800-acre homestead near Homer, Alaska. Her father Atz Kilcher was a folk singer, the son of a Swiss immigrant to Alaska who helped write the state charter (Grandpa Kilcher still tools around occasionally in his horse and buggy in Homer, scaring the residents). Her mother Nedra Carroll also sang and dabbled in other crafts. When Jewel was eight, her parents divorced, and her mother left for Anchorage. Jewel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE SHAPING OF JEWEL | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...lower-level requirements mapped out for first-years and sophomores in Gen. Ed.'s first year to offer courses, '46-'47, reflect Fox's impression. These include Humanities 1a: "Homer, The Old Testament, Plato," and Social Sciences 1a and 1b: "Introduction to the Social Inheritance of Western Civilization...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Harvard's Academic Core Gets Once-Over | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Besides, what purpose would it serve for me to be a homer? For me to say in victory that Harvard played well, but in defeat that at least Harvard gave it the ol' Crimson try? This is not journalism. And I refuse to debase everything that this paper stands for by lowering its standards thusly, even if many of my colleagues over the years have done exactly this...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Roadkill at Rest: "Caring Criticism" | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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