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...changes with a grain of salt,” said Lulu Wang ’06. “The things that they change, they may think is working out for the best, but all in all I don’t think it ever stops being just another hoop that you jump through...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Retooled GRE To Test ‘Real-Life’ Abilities | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

Whatever the level of artistry or popular appeal, the documentary is no longer ashamed. "When Hoop Dreams came out in 1994," recalls director Steve James, "it hid the fact that it was a documentary." Sheila Nevins, who oversaw the excellent America Undercover series for HBO, concurs. "When we started," she says, "we used to try to not call our programs documentaries for fear the public would run away from it. Now we can't wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Now, Meet The Dockers | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

...infidel." The second tape shows a group of 15 uniformed men practicing advancing under fire in a lush grove of trees and tall grass. In another scene, recruits navigate an obstacle course that requires them to climb stairs, crawl under barbed wire and dive through a flaming hoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside an Insurgent Camp | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...warrior, a god. I have built civilizations and seen others toppled at my command. I have colonized planets, built starfleets. I have killed, and I have plundered. I have died and been resurrected. Parades have been thrown in my honor, fireworks set off. I have jumped through every hoop in these algorithmic mazes, satisfied every goal conceived of and coded by pajama’d malcontents, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. But what has it all given me? How have these hours and days of absorption affected the way I experience reality off the screen...

Author: By Jorian P. Schutz, | Title: You Are What You Play | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...bracing look at the life and work of a 20th century master. Giorgio de Chirico fused a classical eye with a disquieting imagination to create Metaphysical art-like the eerie Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (1914), which depicts the shadowy figure of a girl rolling a hoop into a piazza-and later breathed new life into the Baroque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawn From Life | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

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