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...also a favorite among rich collectors, which didn't sit well with him. Were the moneymen buying his beckoning fogbanks of color simply because they found them decorative? Possibly; that may be one reason why, in 1957, his palette darkened. Nothing about a glowering picture like Four Darks in Red, completed in 1958, suggests it was painted to go with the curtains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Rothko: Art of Darkness | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...should know. Zucker virtually invented the spoof film with his '80s comedies Airplane! and The Naked Gun, and with Scary Movie 3 and 4, he has continued to make good money, if not exactly art, in the genre. But snagging a distributor for this red-state satire, which was funded by the late Wisconsin construction billionaire Ken Hendricks and his wife Diane, was no easy task. "We're trying to find movies that the conservative side of the country will desire," says Carol producer Stephen McEveety, whose Mpower Pictures had a low-budget hit last year with the pro-life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Conservatives | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

Roche's risk profile has also extended to being one of the largest investors in a red-hot area of drug research: ribonucleic-acid-mediated interference, or RNAi for short. First identified a decade ago, RNAi is a mechanism that exists naturally within all cells. Its discovery offered scientists one of the first clues into how genes can be turned on and off. And since many diseases are caused by a malfunction of specific genes, the ability to control their expression through RNAi has enormous therapeutic potential. "As soon as we identify what gene to target, our pipeline could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roche's Rush | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...straight years, took full advantage of the Harvard miscues and orchestrated an impressive and symbolic defensive stand on the Crimson’s last minute two-point conversion attempt that would have tied the game if successful.In Ithaca, Cornell fans witnessed an upset of equal proportions by their Big Red. Embarrassed after being smacked around by Yale in a 51-12 drubbing last season, Cornell’s defense unleashed a relentless attack that left five sacks worth of bruises on the Bulldog quarterbacks’ bodies and pride and stumped the great Mike McLeod, Yale’s juggernaut...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Top Two Hope Ivy Order Returns | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...most famous moment in Shea Stadium’s 44-year history is an error—the Mookie Wilson grounder that miraculously skipped through the splayed legs of Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner, capping the Mets’ improbable comeback in game six of the 1986 World Series...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe and Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Point/Counterpoint: Et In Our Stadia Ego | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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