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Chagall had other purposes in mind. For him pictures were made so that lovers could fly and cows could hang upside down in the air, so that logic and gravity could give way to the golden disorder of fantasy. On those canvases he also made a peaceable kingdom in which men and beasts lived together in a mystical communion, an amalgamation of the human and the creaturely as strange and intimate as anything in Ovid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Magical Modernist | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

Christopher is a fan of Sherlock Holmes, whose devotion to logic and reason are a boon to a young man who can't understand emotions, and Christopher uses the Holmes stories as a kind of User's Guide to Life. While Christopher slowly teases out the sinister story behind Wellington's murder--which involves him and his family more intimately than he at first supposes--we gradually learn what it's like to dwell in the mind of a child with a photographic memory, who knows every prime number up to 7,057, but who can't understand what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Read Only One Mystery Novel This Summer... | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...they can defeat Taylor's forces in the capital before ECOWAS arrives, the peacekeepers' role will simply involve overseeing and guaranteeing the transition to a new government. Some African analysts have even speculated that Nigeria's delay in deploying peacekeepers may be in part to allow the Darwinian logic of the battlefield to produce a clear winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia: Why We May Have To Go In | 7/31/2003 | See Source »

...starring in and directing Rampart Scandal, about alleged cop corruption in the Tupac Shakur murder case. He's also defying age and logic by planning a Rocky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Those Guys Look Like Rocky | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...idea of the missionaries' pretentious holier-than-thou attitude is laughable. Do I feel the need to go door to door preaching the logic of evolution or the Big Bang theory? Of course not. If there is anything we need to spread globally, it is forward-thinking, empirical science, not dogmatic interpretations of archaic texts. Chris Jongkind London, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

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