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...Brattle begins its Film Noir 101 program with arguably the first and the best film noir. Legendary director John Huston (Key Largo, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) debuts with his own adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic pulp fiction novel of the same name. Hard-boiled San Francisco detective, Sam Spade (Bogart), goes head to head in search for the elusive statuette against the femme fatale (Astor), the “fat man” (Greenstreet), and his fair-weather partner (Lorre). It was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best...
...White House and establishes the chillingly plausible Office of American Absorption, a government agency aimed at "encouraging America's religious and national minorities to become further incorporated into the larger society"--in other words, forcibly breaking up Jewish communities and dispersing their members to rural backwaters per the novel's Homestead Act of 1942. Roth's delivery is so matter-of-fact, so documentary deadpan that when we're 10 pages into the book our own world starts to seem like a flimsy fantasy...
...liquor has been on a steady rise over the past decade. At the same time, gin seems to have disappeared from the cocktail menu. Last year Americans drank nearly four times as much vodka as gin. To reverse the trend, some distillers have come up with a novel solution: make their drink taste less like gin. By lightening up on the juniper and amping up other flavors, they hope to make gin more palatable for a new generation--and woo vodka drinkers. Some of the best of the new brew: Hendrick's, a small-batch cult favorite from Scotland that...
DIED. HARVEY WHEELER, 85, political scientist who in 1962 co-authored the best-selling novel Fail-Safe,about an accidental nuclear attack on the Soviet Union; in Carpinteria, Calif. A native of Waco, Texas, he was also the author of political-science books and, as a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, did pioneering research on health care...
...ANYONE HAS EARNED a front-row seat along the runway, it's Elsa Klensch. Known worldwide for her 20-year CNN program, Style, she is an opinion maker in the fashion world. This month Forge will publish her first novel, Live at 10:00, Dead at 10:15. TIME talked with Klensch about her tips for looking fabulous past...