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...Woodstock is far more than a sound-and-light souvenir of a long weekend concert. Purely as a piece of cinema, it is one of the finest documentaries ever made in the U.S. ... It is no small tribute to [director Michael] Wadleigh's dexterity that the film's three-hour running time passes with the mesmerizing speed of a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo ... Woodstock's most obvious attraction is the music, and rock has never sounded?or looked?better than it does in the movie. 'Hold on to your neighbor,' says an onstage announcer at one point early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...their children to excel, many fret over how much time homework takes up--and what kids are missing out on as a result. For working parents, homework is the third shift, after the office and after cooking and cleanup chores. Is it worthwhile? Should first-graders really spend an hour a night on work sheets? How much should Mom help? Some answers from experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homework Survival Guide | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...Done: A History of American Housework, "but it's certainly the case that men do much, much more housework than they did 30 years ago." New data from the Labor Department show that among married men and women ages 25 to 54, women who work full time spend an hour and a half a day on household chores, in contrast to just 45 minutes daily for working men. Still, viewed historically, this isn't so bad. Dads are actually spending about 50% more time on housework than they did 25 years ago, according to surveys by the Families & Work Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Job Is This, Anyway? | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...finished. Last month he moved to waive inheritance taxes on sums below €100,000 per estate, suspended a 3% corporate tax, and withstood stiff protests from unions to lay the groundwork for the partial privatization of Electricité de France. He also deplores France's 35-hour workweek, and says it must be changed to allow those who want to work more to do so. And consider the blatant interventionist. Sarkozy brokered the €2 billion state bailout of engineering giant Alstom, angering E.U. members who called it an unfair protectionist subsidy. He also coerced Franco-German pharmaceutical giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Sarkozy? | 10/3/2004 | See Source »

...there it is. After nearly a half-hour of spouting pop philosophy, quoting Outkast lyrics (“shake it like a Polaroid picture,” he hums at one point) and waxing faux-political, Russell has finally come clean. The secret behind the tangled existential web of Huckabees is that there is no secret—it makes the director laugh, and that’s good enough...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Who Hearts David O. Russell? | 10/1/2004 | See Source »

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