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...presses running when the Enquirer switched to color. Though the staid name chosen for the paper suggested a down-market version of Foreign Affairs, it was for its first few years one more celebrity gossip rag. Then Eddie Clontz became editor, and WWN gleefully leapt into the quicksand of fake news. (Read all about the paper's history in a comprehensive Washington Post obit...
...young, Bergman's was not a name worth knowing - though they might be expected to connect with the dark, near-suicidal introspection of his films, with their sense of a tortured psyche swirling into the quicksand of its own making. In 2005, when I proposed a TIME feature on Bergman to coincide with the U.S. release of Saraband, none of the college-age interns that summer had heard...
...presence is making there. Despite Senator John McCain’s assertions to the contrary, Baghdad outside the Green Zone remains dangerous, the Iraqi government remains weak, and the sectarian violence remains endless. And Americans grow ever more restless. America’s Iraq policy is drowning in quicksand, yet our president insists that we can still swim out. Just a few more strokes, he says; all that’s required is one more “surge” of effort. But the harder we struggle, it seems, the quicker we sink. The only palatable solution...
...What happened to John is the ultimate experience of life in Hollywood," says friend and screenwriter Scott Alexander, who co-wrote Ed Wood, The People Vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon. "It's all quicksand. Fantastic success and absolute failure hover at all times. John finally got to direct his first movie: Success! But it's the lowest grosser in history, putting him in the Guinness Book of World Records: Failure! But now everybody wants to see the movie and meet him, and so he'll get more opportunities to make more movies: Success! Success! Success...
...Center for Teaching and Learning James D. Wilkinson ’65 wrote that the Bok Center, which the UC said was a “partner,” played no such role. We sympathize with the UC’s desire to avoid the quicksand of University Hall bureaucracy, but its failure to consult teachers and administrators who would be affected by the hotline, and who could likely provide valuable input, is alarming. Even if it were only a UC initiative, broad input would have only served to increase its legitimacy. Instead, lingering questions threaten the hotline?...