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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." The movie doesn't try. It opens on a sunrise. The book is much funnier, the dialogue much cleverer, the social satire more nuanced. Oh, and some Austenites are spitting mad because the movie ends with a kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books Vs. Movies | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...they are invariably described as "make-or-break," or with some other breathless phrase, and are accompanied by much public posturing. If they don't collapse in mutual recrimination?as did recent World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle and Canc?n?most of the action takes place in a mad flurry during the last few hours, when previously unshakable national positions suddenly melt away in compromise. Then comes the spin. "Trade negotiators are famous for saying that the agreement they've just struck is not a good one," says an official at the WTO secretariat in Geneva, who jokingly describes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Talks | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...second session replacing the late Richard Harris as Hogwarts principal Dumbledore, Michael Gambon has a ponderous, aristocratic humanism. Gary Oldman?s Sirius, the human-canine from the third film, has a bright cameo as a face in the fireplace. The movie strikes black gold with Alistair ?Mad-Eye? Moody, Hogwarts? new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Played by Brendan Gleeson with a swagger and spume not seen since Robert Newton?s Long John Silver (another charming dastard), Mad-Eye has a globular left orb that stares skeptically, maniacally, at all it surveys. He seems both amiable and deranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter's 'Goblet' Gets Better On Screen | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

...went through a lot of hell with him,? in the recollection of Cash's buddy and fellow Country Music Hall of Famer George Jones - is reduced to a small-minded sort with selfish middle-class dreams. ?My mom was basically a nonentity in the entire film except for the mad little psycho who hated his career,? Vivien and John's daughter Kathy Cash told AP this week. ?That's not true. She loved his career and was proud of him until he started taking drugs and stopped coming home.? The screenwriters probably didn't mean to demean her; they just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Phoenix in the Ring of Fire | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

...black project residents are subjected to by police. "But I'm talking about getting searched three times per week - usually by the same cops, who remember you, but figure they'll remind you who is boss all the same. Of course it's racist. Of course people get mad. Wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French 'Troubles' Reach Tourist Mecca | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

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