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...been bid up, last time I checked, to $1,025 on eBay, and the auction doesn't end till midnight tomorrow; and that Criterion's new megabox set, Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films, retailing for all of $850, places an impressive #737 on the Amazon.com best-seller list - higher, for example, than any single DVD edition of Citizen Kane...
PUNKED, AGAIN Call it a '70s revival: black nail polish seems to be back in force--witness the popularity of Chanel's new Black Satin, a best seller for fall...
Finding a spokesman for this side of the question was not hard, since Richard Dawkins, perhaps its foremost polemicist, has just come out with The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin), the rare volume whose position is so clear it forgoes a subtitle. The five-week New York Times best seller (now at No. 8) attacks faith philosophically and historically as well as scientifically, but leans heavily on Darwinian theory, which was Dawkins' expertise as a young scientist and more recently as an explicator of evolutionary psychology so lucid that he occupies the Charles Simonyi professorship for the public understanding of science...
...also a forthright Christian who converted from atheism at age 27 and now finds time to advise young evangelical scientists on how to declare their faith in science's largely agnostic upper reaches. His summer best seller, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Free Press), laid out some of the arguments he brought to bear in the 90-minute debate TIME arranged between Dawkins and Collins in our offices at the Time & Life Building in New York City on Sept. 30. Some excerpts from their spirited exchange...
...focuses on a town outside St. Petersburg that has been all but abandoned, with only a few pensioners left who every week must transport a railway car full of bread from a junction two hours away, pushing it home by hand and consequently contending with the disagreeable bread seller. “In the Dark,” the only one of the films that takes place in a city, depicts a blind man living in Moscow who spends his days weaving string bags to give away to passers-by. All of the films are characterized by long, static shots?...