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...Robin Cormack, one of the exhibition's curators, sees the wooden sculpture as crucial to understanding the Byzantines' obsession with ceremony and mystery, which he believes were efforts to offset a low-rumbling sense of insecurity. Byzantine figures and icons seem crudely rendered to us now because the artists carefully chose to make them generic and timeless. "If you give a figure a [personalized] resemblance," Cormack explains, "it becomes ephemeral, like its model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Exhibition Uncovers the Secrets of Byzantium | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...this and the that of Batman. When the Batman TV show came out in 1966, it was a global hit. But Japan was the only country in the world that contacted DC Comics and said, "We want to license the right to write and draw our own Batman and Robin stories." These stories appeared for exactly a year, from April '66 to May '67. And they kind of came and went. They were never collected, never translated. They just appeared and then vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Designer Chip Kidd | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...shave his revolting, overgrown beard for an upcoming movie. As if having De Niro and Willis wasn’t enough star power, Sean Penn appears as the star of the movie within the movie. He’s joined by Catherine Keener as a ball-busting executive, Robin Wright Penn as Ben’s second wife, John Turturro as Willis’s agent, and Stanley Tucci as a writer trying to make a deal with Ben while seducing Ben’s ex-wife. Excluding De Niro, the rest of the star-studded cast is barely ever...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Just Happened? | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...Hayes, Robin •crowd is advised to "make sure we don't say something stupid" by •crowd is told "liberals hate real Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...first blush, straightforward and honest seem odd terms, even for a campaign manager, to apply to someone who made his name in the phantasmagorically staged world of pro wrestling and then parlayed his fame into roles in Hollywood action films, including Predator, The Running Man and Batman & Robin. Plus Ventura's appeal to populist sympathies and his downscale campaign wardrobe--faded jeans, scuffed sneakers, an occasional camouflage jacket and bush hat--belied the fact that he is a wealthy man. He lives with his wife of 23 years, Terry, and a teenage son and daughter on a 32-acre horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body Slam — Jesse Ventura | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

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