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...what gives his work its unmistakable haunting atmosphere? Hopper himself wasn't much of a guide. He was somewhat reclusive, and discussed his work only in the most general way. He wrote in the catalog for his 1933 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan: "My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature." Nor was he particularly illuminating when he told TIME in 1948: "You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling." Certainly, many of his pictures have the poignancy of scenes glimpsed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Dark Material | 5/23/2004 | See Source »

...different nights of the week. Sometimes they start at 9:30 p.m. and end at 10 p.m., unless the network brass decide to make them start at 9:28 p.m. and end at 10:01 p.m. And then there's year-round programming. Today at City Center in Manhattan, Fox announced not one schedule, but three: One that starts in June, one that starts in November, and another for later in the winter. You need a TiVo to keep all this straight. A TiVo! A computer for your television! Has everyone forgotten that television is the opposite of a computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fox Makes Things So Complicated; UPN Enjoys Being a Girl | 5/21/2004 | See Source »

...want to understand network broadcasting today but don't have time to read my whole week of reports from the upfronts, save yourself some time and simply read these first two paragraphs. NBC Monday announced its upcoming season schedule for advertisers at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. Two of the most prominent announcements were the return of "The Apprentice" and the debut of "The Contender," a boxing reality show also from "Apprentice" and "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett. NBC has been trying and failing for several years to find new hit sitcoms and dramas, but it's had the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NBC: Nothin' But Conventional | 5/18/2004 | See Source »

...wakes up anxious the day she is to deliver a speech that could win her a scholarship to Oxford. Her rebellious sib Roxy (Mary-Kate) is cutting school, again, to attend the making of a rock video. Their paths cross, and they spend a frantic five hours in Manhattan getting into cute scrapes, kooky car chases, a few changes of clothes and the city's sewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Olsens in Bid to Buy Disney | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...very different ways. Yet both are still involved in civil rights work and both become contentious when asked about current racial disparities. "The schools we have today with black kids were the kind of schools we had before Brown," says Carter, 87, from his roomy chambers in downtown Manhattan where he has been a U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of New York since 1972. Professor Jack Greenberg, 79, is more sanguine. "Do you want to take a glass half-empty or a glass-half full approach?" he asks. "In 1954, that glass was 100 percent empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What "Brown" Means Today | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

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