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...Olympic Games. You will find profiles of some of the unique athletes you'll be watching on TV, a photo essay on the beautiful environs of Park City, Utah, and an extensive archive of TIME's past Olympic coverage. Plus, an online essay by Walter Kirn about the Mormon ideal vs. the Olympic ideal. At time.com/olympics2002...
...band’s sound was always Maal’s supple, soaring voice that leapt as easily as it trilled on half-tones. African bands are sometimes slightly mystified and frustrated by playing to a seated audience, but given the more mellow acoustic performance, the theater was ideal in its immediacy of contact between performers and audience. It remains a mystery why the audience at such performances by African superstars is dominated by white world music junkies, while more or less no interested African-Americans attend...
...Solondz digs into the familiar territory of surburban misery and dysfunction. The story centers on Toby Oxman, (Paul Giamatti), a dejected shoe salesman who plans to make a documentary film about the underbelly of suburban high school, and the Livingstons, a middle-class Jewish-American family. Oxman finds his ideal protagonist in Scooby Livingston, an apathetic, strung-out, futureless student who spends most of his time organzing his CD collection and dreaming of being Conan O’Brien’s sidekick. Oxman follows Scooby through his nonexistent college search and his banal homelife. And here is Solondz...
...Video Art”, African-American Studies 187y, “Black Cinema as Genre—From Blaxploitation to Quentin Tarantino”). It is almost impossible to truly appreciate the beauty of Julien’s film while standing in the Carpenter Center: the lighting is not ideal, the screen is tiny and embedded in an enormous white wall, and the ambient noise and perpetual echoes in the gallery force the hapless viewer to glue his ear to the screen just to hear the actors’ voices. “Looking for Langston?...
...wonders whether the traditional business career path is ideal: “Everyone says you work for two years, go to B-school, then you’re 27 and then you can do what you want,” he says. “I might be 27 and I might be married, I might have a kid. I’ll probably have a dog. I’m not going to be able to do what I want. If anything I can do what I want right...