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A keening whistle sounded over the Italian countryside as a small train appeared in the middle distance. At the fairground platform, Oliver J. Swindleton fiddled with his stolen cravat and practiced his Italian accent.“Eh...veridamente molto bene. A-pleased-ah to meet you signora! Mozzarella...vino...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy: Chapter 8 | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

The players are uniformly good, but a special word must be said for Fiennes, whose portrayal of physical awkwardness and painful taciturnity never begs either for laughs or for sympathy. He is, to borrow the title of a touchstone modernist novel, a man without qualities, a creature who might fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keira Knightley as a Feisty, Cool Duchess | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

Chinese tennis players may be making their mark globally, but the sport's finicky etiquette was still a mystery to many of the Chinese fans who won a ticket lottery to watch Olympic tennis this month. Before a match at the tennis venue, an Olympic volunteer wandered through the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hometown Heroes Dominate Courts | 8/16/2008 | See Source »

And while there's no Cigarette Smoking Man, and the Lone Gunman dweebs weren't invited to the reunion, Mulder and Scully must be heartened by the brief return of [spoiler alert!] their old boss Skinner (Mitch Pileggi). Just as important is the film's location in the Great White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: X Files Movie: For X-Philes Only | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

The compliment came from an unlikely source. ''You're so tasteful,'' gushed Bette Midler. Lena Horne's reply was something of a surprise: ''I'm tired of being tasteful.'' In this family history, Gail Lumet Buckley reveals the source of her mother's weariness and, en route, shows that fatigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCING PARTNERS OF CHIC THE HORNES: AN AMERICAN FAMILY by Gail Lumet Buckley; Knopf; 262 pages; $18.95 | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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