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For more than 17,000 years, the bestiary of the Lascaux cave in southwestern France has survived the ravages of human history. Anyone entering this time capsule is confronted by 4-m-long bulls that appear to float across the massive vaults like religious apparitions. An enigmatic spotted beast with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Beauty | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

My son is considering Dartmouth (and Harvard), but I have misgivings about what I believe to be Dartmouth’s anti-woman, and possibly anti-gay, fraternity culture. By reporting on “Hard Guy Tees” (“Dartmouth T-Shirts Come Under Fire,?...

Author: By Jules Loeser | Title: Dartmouth T-Shirts Show ‘Neanderthal’ Culture | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

People have ideas about my state, particularly people who aren't from here. About 10 years ago in New York City, I mentioned to a new acquaintance--a young, well-educated journalist--that I was flying back that afternoon to my home in Livingston, Mont. A look of concern came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Montana Is Turning Blue | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

The captive boyars of the Politburo discussed literature, made policy, denounced colleagues and drank like fish to numb the fear of being led away at dawn. Often, Montefiore records, the dinner "sank to the level of a Neanderthal stag night." Stalin would get so drunk, Nikita Khrushchev remembered, that "he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not Your Average Joe | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

Talking pictures were barely a year old when anarchy broke loose at the movies. At the start of The Cocoanuts, Groucho Marx stalked down the steps in his Neanderthal slouch and spat out a flood of puns and insults. It was a new cinema art: rude descending a staircase.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brothers Of Invention | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

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