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Okay, so "American Pie 2: Music from the Motion Picture" does not boast any material likely to join "Lara's Theme" from "Dr. Zhivago" and the overture from "Gone With the Wind" in the pantheon of soundtrack music treasured by successive generations. But the album, released by Universal a week before the movie opened last weekend to the tune of $45 million, bears scrutiny as a document of our age. Considered in combination with the movie, it offers an image of contemporary middle-class teenagers that differs widely from the image presented in the teen movies and music...
When Dave Wameling first heard that someone was building a lake near the desert town of Indio, Calif., he figured it was another case of a misguided entrepreneur spending too many hours in the 110[degree] sun. What kind of pie-in-the-sky promoter would dream up that...
When White House budget director Mitchell Daniels testified before the Senate Budget Committee this spring, he brought along a plump apple pie--an apt symbol for the government's bountiful budget surplus, then estimated at some $275 billion. But when Daniels appeared before the panel last week, his estimate of the spare cash fell as low as $160 billion. The committee's new Democratic chairman, Kent Conrad, served some baked goods too. He gave Daniels a modest pear tart with the words "shrinking surplus" inscribed in frosting...
...dollars each program generates. With iPoint, the system Williams has been developing, digital set-top boxes could tailor virtual ads to individual viewers, based on their demographics and buying habits. Pizza Hut could go after Domino's customers, enticing them to click on an image to order a pie. "We can literally target individual TV sets," says Williams. He just has to hope that most people, unlike him, are still busy watching them...
...punching up the effect with sharp lines and rainbow profiles of complementary color, a green or a purple, that pulse like halos and throw the whole form into relief. He isn't being hit-or-miss. He is, on the contrary, being intensely thoughtful. The arrays of pie slices or cake stands become Utopian: soft but strict geometry. (No wonder the Pop artist Thiebaud liked best was Claes Oldenburg.) One of the dictators of classical French banquet cooking in the early 19th century, Marie-Antoine Careme, was once asked to name the main arts of humankind. He reeled them...