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...easy baritone (the top singers of the time were tenors), he introduced intimacy to pop music. Sinatra, whose bobbysoxer fans squealed as ecstatically in World War II as Elvis' would in the Cold War days, added a knowing sexuality to his exquisite reading of a lyric. His voice knew all the angles to any emotion. Sinatra was the citywise predecessor to Presley's Southern teen, hotrodding to the cathouse for the promise of dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elvis: The Last Romantic | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

...begin with, Murray was a crucial figure in the struggle to bring painting back to life in the 1970s and early '80s. If there was one thing that nearly everybody in the art world knew back then, it was that painting was yesterday's news. Real artists did installations, or sawed houses in half or got behind the controls of a bulldozer and piled up earthworks - anything other than pick up a hairy brush and use it to drag that ancient mud called pigment across a piece of cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elizabeth Murray: Bringing Painting Back to Life | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...hope it will not follow us here. I cannot join them in such wishful and very dangerous thinking." Last month, McCain tried to enter the Obama-Clinton feud by attacking the Illinois Senator for his "naivete." And in last Sunday's presidential debate, McCain made sure that the audience knew he was a warrior: "I am fully prepared-fully prepared, more than anyone else running on either side-to fight the transcendent challenge of this nation, which will be for all of the 21st century. And that is the struggle against radical Islamic extremism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of the Restart | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...keep the arrest quiet. If Rove was worried, he didn't show it. In fact, he was convinced that Bush would win at least 320 electoral votes the next day, if not 340. He went state-by-state confidently explaining how this would happen. He was not spinning; he knew TIME wouldn't publish again before election night. He was, simply, wrong. The next day, Al Gore won half a million more votes than Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karl Rove's Flawed Vision | 8/13/2007 | See Source »

Isom said that while he never knew Baldwin when they both lived in Texas, he had gained a strong reputation among medical academic circles as one of the leaders in his field...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baldwin Chosen for Head Texas Tech Health Job | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

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