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...material, though, not just in its profanity but in its moral ambiguity and social criticism. The show is like McCabe for more reasons than that it involves whorehouses and business conflicts. Like the '70s movies of Altman, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola and others, HBO's dramas rework popcorny genre formats (the cop drama, the Mob flick) with dark, even cynical themes: that institutions are corrupt, that people and systems and families will screw you over, that heroes are never entirely heroic or villains alone in their villainy. Deadwood wants to show not just how the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: True Grit | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...shows to get ratings and sexing up some of its news broadcasts to get buzz. With new digital-TV and radio channels, a highly successful website, a major international expansion--to say nothing of the fight with the government that provides much of its money and is about to rework its charter--"the BBC is having to justify itself in too many directions at once," says Anthony Smith, president of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a former BBC producer. Commercial media rivals like News Corp, which controls the satellite-TV network Sky, vent that the BBC's subsidy gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media: The Beeb Cashes In | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...than crunk. But soon the album’s pulled in opposite directions by tracks like Charles Manier’s “At The Bottle” (whose post-Kraftwerk synths and four-on-the-floor thump sound made for anime dancefloors) and a Telefon Tel Aviv rework of Midwest Product’s “A Genuine Display.” The latter’s rainy fragility is the compilation’s wildcard, showing that indie introspection can paint hip-hop and tech-house rhythms as beautifully as ambient did in the early...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 9/26/2003 | See Source »

Some students said they will rework their summer plans in light of the lift...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SARS Travel Ban Lifted | 7/3/2003 | See Source »

After the group spent several months lobbying, the Financial Aid Committee decided to rework the policy...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Their Own: Making It Add Up | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

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