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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...arrangement of lines that readers had been taught to be the accepted sign of handsome: sharp, slanting eyebrows, thick at the ends, thinning out toward the nose, of which in three-quarter view there was hardly any - just a small V placed slightly above the mouth, casting the faintest nick of a shadow. One never saw a nose full view. There was never a full view. They were too hard to draw. Eyes were usually ball-less, two thin slits. Mouths were always thick, quick single lines - never double. Mouths, for some reason, were rarely shown open. Dialogue, theoretically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Mad Need a Museum? | 2/3/2007 | See Source »

...Documentaries get starry: Some of the hottest documentaries at the film festival employed actors to tell their tales: the opening-night movie, Chicago 10, relies on a voice cast including Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo and Liev Schreiber in animated scenes of the trial of anti-war demonstrators from the 1968 Democratic National Convention; Woody Harrelson and Mariel Hemingway read letters and journals in Nanking, about the Japanese occupation of the Chinese city in 1937; Strange Culture features Tilda Swinton and other actors dramatizing events that lead to the arrest of a University of Buffalo professor on suspicion of bioterrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Surprises from Sundance | 1/27/2007 | See Source »

...South Florida fretted about its schools, sprawl and spiraling costs of living half as much as it agonized over its Miami Dolphins, the place might actually be the paradise it claims to be. But for now, it's loudly gnashing its sun-baked teeth at Nick Saban, the oily Dolphins coach who bolted for the University of Alabama this week after telling Miami fans over and over that he would do no such thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama's Sellout for Saban | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...could bring as much sex to singing as Elvis; but whereas he was singing from the gut and the gutter, she was the voice of mature eroticism. She sexualizes a neutral song like "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (undermelody: "Big fat Santa's on his way"), turning Saint Nick into a sugar daddy. Mostly, though, the mood is one of longing and regret, which suits a vocal style so intimate it was practically internal. Her beautiful "White Christmas" emphasizes the distance between the singer and the people she wants to be near. In the Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn "Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 12 CDs of Christmas | 12/22/2006 | See Source »

...three before Dartmouth closed the gap to 3-2.Though no penalty was called immediately after Tobe was knocked down at the end of the opening frame, the Crimson came back to the ice after the intermission to discover a penalty had been given to the Big Green’s Nick Johnson for hitting after the whistle.Harvard scored just 44 seconds into the ensuing power play opportunity, when Taylor notched his second man-advantage tally of the game, knocking home a cross-ice feed from senior center Kevin Du.Just two minutes later, the Crimson earned another power play chance when Dartmouth...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Long Winter’s Rest Ends with ECAC Win | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

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