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Anyone with a rooting interest in culture has surely had the experience of having a crush on an artist, of tearing through all of a novelist's books or rapidly buying all of a musician's CDs--the aesthetic equivalent of downing a pint of Haagen-Dazs--only to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Classics Updated | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

Peggy's Cove was born of a shipwreck. Legend has it that the tiny hamlet on the coast of Nova Scotia was named for a woman pulled back from death at sea by a local sailor. The only survivor of a doomed ship, she was nursed back to health by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Safe Harbor | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

Whether he would have won at the next Olympics, we'll never know. What we do know is that Towne, a man of ruefully romantic temperament, has found a soulmate in Steve Prefontaine. In an article he once wrote, Towne made an implicit analogy between writing and running. Both involve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: At the Head of the Pack | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

Kiss and Broadway have identical plots: a smart guy falls for a hunky guy and spends the whole movie waiting to be kissed by him. Even the supporting characters are similar. Whereas straight film romances may feature a wisecracking gay neighbor, the gay movies are about two guys and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Objects Of Our Affection | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

Each of the writers finds something different in New York, but most seem to express sentiments similar to Heather Chase's description of the city as "largely populated by self-selected orphans, nomads and people with variable identities." New York emerges from the descriptions of the writers as lonely and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor Combines Modern Voices | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

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