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...participant who clearly did not get the Appropriate Hollywood Reaction memo was Golden Globe host Ricky Gervais, who, in the fourth minute of the show, gleefully threw a grenade at the NBC executives for their handling of the Late Show fiasco. But the embattled NBC brass were generally spared from a night of continuing barbs about the pop scandal of the moment. By minute five, presenter Nicole Kidman turned the attention right back to Haiti and Clooney's telethon. And so it went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Makes a Pitch for Haiti at Globes | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...Thrice Upon a Time" follows a simple historical chronology. The story begins in the late 19th century, when the scattered archipelago was a Spanish colony, its people stifled by ruling élites but also desperate to earn their approval. The assiduousness with which they sought it can be seen in two iconic works by Filipino artists Juan Luna and Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, who together swept the top prizes at a prestigious Madrid art exposition in 1884. Neither painting bears any trace of indigenous technique; instead they demonstrate the skill with which the Filipinos absorbed the traditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Spanish to Surreal | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...time Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos came to power in the Philippines in the mid- to late 1960s, Amorsolo's influence over neorealist painters like Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Jose Joya and Fernando Zóbel had been virtually obliterated. Drawing inspiration instead from American artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, the cool mathematical lines of Zóbel fitted surprisingly well into the Marcoses' own propagandistic aims. According to Ramon Lerma, director of Manila's Ateneo Art Gallery, the Marcos regime was preoccupied with modernity. "They wanted to present the Philippines as keeping up with the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Spanish to Surreal | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Bottom line: the Nook is a nicer package than the Kindle. But the real question is, Will either of them survive the arrival of Apple's tablet computer, which is expected in late January? We used to think the only way to read e-books was on drab-looking E Ink displays, but Apple's ultra-sharp iPhone screens have proved otherwise. As nice as the Nook is, like the Kindle, it will probably be obsolete long before paper books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Look at the Nook | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Harvard got a chance on the power play late in the third, but again Cornell’s kill unit held it quiet...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Red Scores in Final Seconds to Force Tie | 1/16/2010 | See Source »

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