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...called Sugar Loaf (the tour guide helpfully informs us that it's so named because early explorers thought it "looked like a loaf of sugar"). I gradually tune her out and I try to use what I've seen to come up with a deep think. When Jobim helped launch the bossa nova boom in 1956, it was considered a radical new style, upsetting to the samba-ruled old order. The "new way" (one translation of "bossa nova") was smooth, stripped-down music, but full of strange harmonies and unusual syncopation. While other musical acts of the period were singing...
Besides which, the premise of this show has been exploited for years on the syndicated "Change of Heart," which sends couples on dates with other people to compare notes, and somehow the watchdog groups that jumped on "Temptation" haven't seen fit to launch a crusade against that show. The fact is, "controversies" over shows like "Temptation Island" are simply cynical exercises in mutual masturbation through the media. The moralist groups get a soapbox; Fox gets days of free advertising for a show that would otherwise have been lucky to beat out "Blind Date...
...night urging a peace settlement on Arafat, Hillary's concerns are more domestic. Friends have long been relied on to contribute to the Clintons' campaigns, their legal-defense funds and their library. The New York Times got wind of friends' wanting "to treat her like a bride" to help launch her First-Lady afterlife. Earlier, cooler heads had prevailed to nix an actual shower. Now, friends say, there's something of a silent shower taking place, whereby those who want to help out can learn what china (Spode) and soup ladle to buy, preferably before the Senate gift ban kicks...
Columbia University's Teachers College is reaching out to schools and teachers who are looking for fresh ideas. The college this year will launch the Doris Dillon Center to spread the word about teaching programs and practices that have proved successful. The center will draw on Teachers College faculty to provide online and on-site help. The center is named for a nationally recognized reading teacher and 30-year veteran of public schools in San Jose, Calif., who has continued to educate and inspire children despite having lost her voice and mobility to Lou Gehrig's disease. Last June, TIME...
...founder, claims that her company intended all along to commit to print its fleshy pictorials and ooh-la-la advice columns. Having built up a readership--and a lookership--on the Internet, Nerve intends to stretch out on paper with longer articles and richer photo spreads. At its launch six months ago, the magazine claimed a circulation of 50,000. Now it's around 70,000. In some ways, Nerve's print edition is an improvement on its electronic version. For one thing, the naughty pictures are much crisper...