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Garrulous and avuncular, sipping a Bloody Mary at 4 p.m. in a Beverly Hills hotel, Coppola explains the crisis of confidence that immobilized him, and his career pivot from John Grisham to a Romanian mythologist. In 2004 the director was much like Matei before the lightning struck; he was frustrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coppola, Take 2 | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

In Musicophilia, as in the books that made his literary name, Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks dives into the crevices of the human mind in search of a cure and surfaces with enlightenment for us all. We are irritatedly familiar, for example, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musicophilia: Song of Myself | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

The fact that absolute pitch - the ability to name any isolated musical tone - shows up on the scanner as an exaggerated asymmetry between the size of certain structures in the right and left sides of the brain falls far short of explaining how it's acquired. What gets closer are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musicophilia: Song of Myself | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

With a touching air of realism, the play focuses on a town so plagued by drought that a soulless corporation, Urine Good Company (UGC), has created and monopolized a market for all public toilets. The town’s penny-scrounging denizens are furious about this fee-to-pee policy...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Urinetown’ Brings Satire to the Bathroom | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

“Urinetown” is a musical that leaves a lot of room for dramatic creativity but flows best when everyone involved is faithful to the show’s self-effacing nature. This weekend’s performance accomplished just that. In the sunken, small, and aged...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Urinetown’ Brings Satire to the Bathroom | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

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