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...enthusiasm of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other icons of the Beat Generation--when the Beatles and Mia Farrow journeyed to India to sit at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. Since then, yoga has endured more evolutions of popular consciousness than a morphing movie monster. First it signaled spiritual cleansing and rebirth, a nontoxic way to get high. Then it was seen as a kind of preventive medicine that helped manage and reduce stress. "The third wave was the fitness wave," says Richard Faulds, president of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Yoga | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...film, as one might guess, is extremely talky and incorporates myriad visual gags into the work. At one point, the protagonist is chased across the screen by a funny-looking monster; at another, somebody asks him about his personal hero while he is dressed as Hugh Hefner.  And throughout, the film’s often eccentric questioners—a large robot, a philosophizing guitarist, a strait-jacketed kook and a pillow-clutching man walking through the streets in baggy pajamas, among others—succeed in stimulating the viewer with their odd appearances...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Penny For Your Thoughts | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...hated him seem to be united by the same feeling of sudden emptiness. He was a pivotal point in the lives of both camps for 13 long years. As long as Milosevic was at large, there existed a hope - or fear - that he might come back, like a monster in a cheap horror film. Now his future has become a legal matter concerning judges, lawyers, prison officials and the victims of the wars he instigated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Going Out with a Whimper | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...enthusiasm of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other icons of the Beat Generation - when the Beatles and Mia Farrow journeyed to India to sit at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. Since then, yoga has endured more evolutions of popular consciousness than a morphing movie monster. First it signaled spiritual cleansing and rebirth, a nontoxic way to get high. Then it was seen as a kind of preventive medicine that helped manage and reduce stress. "The third wave was the fitness wave," says Richard Faulds, president of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Of Yoga | 4/15/2001 | See Source »

...style, to somewhere even more messed up. The other one, The Pee-wee Herman Story, is what Reubens is calling "the adult Pee-wee movie" and has the tight-suited one making it as a pop singer, moving to Hollywood, becoming insanely famous and turning into a monster. "Pee-wee Herman winds up getting hooked on pills and booze. I'm not shooting up, but I wouldn't want young kids to see it," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bigger Than Pee-wee | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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