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...Prince sings on--and writes in--his newest album. He may be right. What with the name change, the excessive cosmetics and the shoe collection, Prince is by some standards bizarre enough to be dismissed as a freak. But weigh all that against his 2007 Super Bowl performance, the shelf life of his hits and his early adoption of the Internet as a vehicle for selling music, and suddenly he could be a visionary genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince In Print | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...Schott also dip into leftover canning liquid, especially from fruits, to jazz up cocktails at the bar. Months ago, they put up nectarines with star anise, cloves and Cointreau - they'll have the fruit to serve all winter, while the remaining infused Cointreau can be mixed with top-shelf tequila at the bar to make their Red-Headed Stepchild cocktail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canning: In Pursuit of the Perfect Pickle | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...networks in 2007, a step back from complicated serials like Lost that virtually demand a postgraduate degree to watch. The strategy amounts to unintentional strike-proofing, since it requires viewers to remember less mythology. Like canned peas, these shows are just as enjoyable after a year on the shelf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New TV Series — Last Year's Strike Victims — Get a Do-Over | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...nothing but praise, belies his fidelity to the cause of a free society. It is hardly a stretch to link the current turmoil in Georgian separatist regions with Solzhenitsyn’s nefarious fantasy of pan-Slavic nationhood. Any honest obituary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn must take into account his shelf-life as a writer and his severe failures as a political visionary. For genuine liberal critiques of totalitarian society, we can always go back to Orwell. As for a perversely beautiful celebration of the Russian spirit, I’ll stick with “The Brothers Karamazov...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: Mourning Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...demand for books by or about the contenders. Joe Biden's memoir was just reissued in paperback, and a second Sarah Palin bio is already in the works, with 100,000 copies coming out in October. While Barack Obama's two books are best sellers, John McCain fills more shelf space: since becoming a Senator, he's penned five hefty tomes with speechwriter Mark Salter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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