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...that revolution was ancillary. (So was the Blowup rave-up performed by the Yardbirds, including the young Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.) Artistically, Antonioni was after bigger game, and bagged it. As critic Adriano Apra says on the Criterion edition of Eclipse: "In film each auteur gives us his distinctive perception of the world. Antonioni goes beyond that. He always invents a world of his own." Apra means that literally, especially regarding the director's first two color features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Antonioni Blew Up the Movies | 8/5/2007 | See Source »

...feel that the two of us--men equipped with a certain tough cynicism, men who know that this whole celebrity machine is overblown, men, damn it, who have lived--could be straight with each other. When Willis, who was in Alcoholics Anonymous and now occasionally drinks, began to rave about the dangers of booze (perhaps provoked by my repeated references to his 1980s Seagram's wine-cooler commercials), and I countered with a question about a YouTube video of him looking a little plowed at a recent Nets playoff game, he smiled. He paused. And then he said, "Jet-lagged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bruce Willis Keeps His Cool | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...Crimson’s analysis of the survey data found that concentration size is a strong predictor of student satisfaction, with the smallest concentrations receiving rave reviews...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Low Ranks for Large Fields | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

Libeskind's addition to the Denver Art Museum, which opened last fall, won some rave reviews but also ran into criticism that its angular gallery spaces, with their diagonal walls - spaces not so different from his new ones at the ROM - were inhospitable to the art or even the public. To meet U.S. safety codes, the museum had to apply 7.5-cm-tall wooden markers ("courtesy curbs") on the floor in some galleries to prevent visitors from advancing into inward-sloping walls and bumping their heads. Christoph Heinrich, who will become the Denver museum's new curator of modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Burst | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...Gerhkes’ term as House masters was an overwhelming success, judging from rave reviews from many Quincy House students, especially when compared with that of the Kirshners, who were notably absent from the dining hall and rarely sponsored events.The contrast between the performance of the Gehrkes and Kirshners as house masters—highlighted in a letter signed by 77 Quincy House seniors sent to the Kirshners in April and recently obtained by The Crimson—demonstrates the power that masters wield in forming a house’s social fabric. It also raises fundamental questions about...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Missing The Gehrkes | 5/23/2007 | See Source »

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