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...spend a good portion of time talking about that transformational time in your life - your battles with anorexia and substance addictions. How much of your relationship with your ex-husband do you attribute to your teenage years? A lot, but I think the answer is more complicated. The easy, pop-psychology answer would be to chalk my abuse up to self-esteem issues. But because at an early age I had overcome anorexia and faced head-on a tendency toward addiction, I was overly confident. I had gone to Harvard, I had solved all these really big problems. I wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Love Can Turn Violent | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...soldier's thirst for any sort of pop culture: "Toward the middle of our second week in-country, Noriel walked into his squad's room to find the long, skinny Mahardy and the short, fireplug-like Guzon lying together on a lower bunk bed, both wearing nothing but their short green nylon shorts and watching The Notebook, a romantic tear-jerker ... Noriel, of course, immediately ridiculed the odd couple for their supremely unmanly choice of movie ... Four days later, having exhausted his own entertainment supply, [Noriel] surreptitiously made his way into an unoccupied squad room, snagged The Notebook, and brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joker One: A Marine's Bloody Iraq Memoir | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...However Arabic or Russian the orchestrations, Jarre's music fit the plangent mood of French postwar pop: the mordant, worldly-wise chansons of Gilbert Bécaud, Marguerite Monnot, Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour. The simple melodies follow a clear ascending or descending line, and sound either inevitable or predictable, depending on the extent of the listener's fondness for the form. Jarre didn't write pop songs, exactly; "Lara's Theme" was his one Top 40 hit. But the sound was marketable in movies, and after Lawrence, Jarre's tinny, tinkly, discordant music was in high demand by directors searching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epic Composer Maurice Jarre Dies at 84 | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...cover of Rolling Stone has afforded the means for countless pop-culture princesses to bridge the virgin-whore divide and construct new identities as promiscuous sex symbols. Take the 1999 cover of Britney Spears: Clad in a black push-up bra and polka-dotted panties, her lips suggestively apart and her right index finger gesturing toward her privates, the singer exudes mature sexuality; at the same time, her male companion—a stuffed Tinky-Winky—and her ostensible engagement in frivolous girl-talk affirm her status as an adolescent rendered sexually unattainable by both law and taboo...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: ‘Sexiness’ or ‘Sexism’? | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

MySpace's story is an almost stereotypical coming-of-age tale for Internet start-ups, a modern-day bildungsroman of social networking. The idea was birthed in the seedy underworld of the Internet by the same folks who brought you such innovations as spam, the pop-up ad and spyware. The site itself was a rip-off, a hastily thrown-together clone of its predecessor Friendster. Both sites missed the heyday of the Web bubble, but there's something to be said for persistence and a good idea, and MySpace quickly grew far beyond anyone's expectations. (See TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stealing MySpace | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

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