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Keynes led the British delegation to the 1944 conference in Bretton Woods, N.H., where Allied officials determined the postwar shape of the global financial system. He was unable to persuade his U.S. counterparts to give the institution at the heart of the new system, the IMF, the money-creation powers he envisioned. Those finally came in 1969 with the development of the SDR but remained limited in scope. No new SDRs have been created since 1981, and there are only 21.4 billion of them (equal in value to $31.9 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Supplanting the Dollar Would Be Good for America | 4/9/2009 | 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 »

...title of a short film made by the renowned avant-garde animator Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada in 1951. It was also the cue for moviegoers the following year, when Bwana Devil, Arch Oboler's low-budget safari epic, introduced 3-D to the postwar audience. "A Lion in Your Lap! A Lover in Your Arms!" the ads read, but the big thrill was a native's spear tossed into the audience. The picture found an audience, and instantly theaters were flooded with 3-D movies - more than 100 features and shorts in the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 3-D or Not 3-D: That Is the Question | 3/28/2009 | See Source »

...appearances, the crown prince of normality. The wife and three children, the faithful retrievers, the rambling old house in Ossining, N.Y. - in all its outward signs, his life was commensurate with his role as the man who was, with John Updike, the esteemed chronicler of the postwar suburbs. But if you came to his fiction expecting sunlit scenes of American life, you were mistaken. Though his work was shot through with the beauty and abundance of the world, of suburban "nights where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains," there was also failure and weakness at every turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darkness Visible | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...housing industry is comatose, yet even that has a silver lining. We have a moment to pause and reflect before we begin building again. When big-time real estate development resumes, we can move beyond the incoherent, anything-goes paradigm of the postwar era and produce more places to live along the lines of the towns and cities everyone instinctively loves, communities designed to become true communities. "The days where we're just building sprawl forever," Obama said in February in South Florida, "those days are over. I think that Republicans, Democrats - everybody recognizes that that's not a smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Excess: Is This Crisis Good for America? | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

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