Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Apple is, not coincidentally, the site of Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1947. Where else could Branch Rickey have pulled off integrating the national pastime during the Jim Crow era--very liberal...
Jeffrey Kluger is the co-author with Jim Lovell of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, on which the movie was based For more of Foale's harrowing experiences aboard Mir, visit time.com...
...what happened in 1960 when CLARE BOOTHE LUCE--playwright, socialite, anticommunist and wife of Henry Luce--turned on, tuned in and dropped LSD with her husband. Luce's handwritten acid diaries were made public this month, 10 years after her death, as stipulated in her will. Among her Jim Morrisonesque musings: "Capture green bug for future reference," "Feel all true paths to glory lead but to the grave," and "The futility of the search to be someone. Do you hear the drum...
...whole gallery of messages from Jenny Holzer; a fatuous "work" by Laurence Weiner in the form of the word reduced written in huge block letters on the wall of its main gallery; another gallery devoted to a single drawing by Sol Lewitt; some huge and utterly banal sculpture by Jim Dine; and so on. And, of course, that one-shot icon of the conformity of late-Modernist official taste, Jeff Koons' Puppy, 1992, sitting outside the museum...
...Jim Jarmusch pays a worthy tribute to Neil Young & Crazy Horse through an engrossing collage of biography, interviews and concert footage that's bound to satisfy even die-hard Neil Young fans. Through it all, he also evokes the unusual sense of family that ties the band together, as well as the not-so-obvious connection between his own art and theirs. The result is a fine, occasionally brilliant synergy of music and film. --Brandon K. Walston