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...second annual TIME 100 poll pitted more than 200 scientists, intellectuals, corporate titans, heads of state, cable TV hosts and Korean pop singers against each other in a competition to determine one thing: who is the world's most influential person...
...theme of Redman’s interactions with jazz. It may not be the pure release for him now that it was in his college days, but it hasn’t lost its ability to carry him up and away.“I am the least freewheeling person you will meet,” Redman says. “I don’t have any of that in my day-to-day, the way I navigate the world, interact with people. In music I think I have that, and maybe have that in a different way than...
...Rebecca Gilman’s “Boy Gets Girl” and a role that has won Kargman national recognition and success in tough auditions. “I mean, she’s just totally independent and focused and charismatic and just someone that a normal person can really empathize with.”Kargman has been a performer since her youth, and her ability to build complex characters springs from both her self-described “wild imagination” and her determined, artistic drive. She approached Harvard fresh from four years on the competitive...
...intelligently to the text,” he said. “So few people are actually doing serious criticism. It’s so snarky, it’s so ad hominum, it’s so black and white.” “The stupidest person in New York City is currently the lead reviewer of fiction for the New York Times,” he added, referring to controversial, Pulitzer-Prize winning reviewer Michiko Kakutani. Speaking to the success of “The Corrections”—a National Book Award winner...
...that April evening in 1973, has grown to be politically expedient. The phrase is a simple way for Presidents and politicians of all stripes to pass the God and Country test; to sate the appetites of those in the public and press corps who want assurance that this person is a real, God-fearing American. It's the verbal equivalent of donning an American flag lapel pin: few notice if you do it, but many notice...