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Though the turning point for America's moral agenda is surely Sept. 11, chroniclers of the arts and other leisure activities still observe the Julian calendar. Hence our annual review of cultural events, recalled with fondness or contempt. Except for the film Kandahar and David Letterman's TV show, the items cited here do not relate directly to the attacks on the U.S. But they do speak to our need to look back: to Greek myths (reinvented off-Broadway), to John Adams (in a new biography), to '70s punk (rekindled by the Strokes). We also look up (at the winged...
Albert Einstein stood common sense on its head when he proclaimed time to be just another dimension, like height, width and depth, and went on to declare that it can be stretched and warped like taffy. But that notion is much too mundane for Julian Barbour. According to the 64-year-old British physicist, there's no point in trying to describe time, because it simply doesn't exist. "The passage of time," he says, "is simply an illusion created by our brains...
...other vantage point of Tob Dara, we were told later, ITN's Julian Manion proclaimed loudly to his editors that he was in serious danger broadcasting from the roof of the mosque. The biggest danger was the roof collapsing. And a radio correspondent who slipped into a local house to file reported getting half stoned on second hand fumes from marijuana being consumed by the residents. On the way back from Sinjeddarah our hopes of a relatively full night's sleep were dashed when the car broke down. We dozed fitfully until something picked...
...this point (at least not in America), the Strokes have managed to bypass fame, fortune and selling out without collecting their $200 and have instead skipped straight to the requisite hedonism that accompanies rock ’n roll superstardom. In spite of their new-money pedigrees (lead singer Julian Casablancas’ father is the founder of the Elite model empire; guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.’s father wrote “It Never Rains in Southern California;” Casablancas, drummer Fabrizio Moretti and guitarist Nick Valensi all attended Dwight prep school in New York...
...sold-out crowd. After listening to their EP The Modern Age, the advance international relase of Is This It and then finally seeing them in flesh, it is clear that the Strokes are a live outfit. Their studio-recorded songs attempt to recreate the immediacy and anguish of Julian Casablancas’ vocals, the tight guitar riffs of Albert Hammond Jr. and Nick Valensi, the bouncy bass of Nikolai Fraiture and the aggressive drumming of Fabrizio Moretti. Even the band members’ names have a novel quality and are strangely fatalistic, as if they had already been written into...