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...communicate the sorts of ideas he had been dealing with through other means. From there, he went on to work on several projects for the German director Werner Herzog before going on to make his own first film, a feat which Herzog commemorated by publicly eating his own shoe. Morris is quick to point out that he never went to film school, adding, "I somehow believe the real film school is the movie theatre...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Executioner's Song: Portrait of the Artist | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

...nation has become a kind of giant store; everything is for sale. Catalogs rise like dough in our mailboxes, offering "the best double-buffer shoe polisher"; "the only floating practice green," which transforms "any pool into a challenging golf shot"; a "baby elephant sprinkler topiary" that sprays water from its moss-covered trunk. Fame is for sale. New hair, necks and noses are for sale. Debt is for sale. Every inch of space is used for advertising. A good pass in a pro basketball game is identified as an "AT&T Great Connection." Politics is for sale; candidates buy public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter To The Year 2100 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...makeshift bowl I keep it in) and a tablecloth that actually fit. I ordered both from Williams-Sonoma williams-sonoma.com) This is where I first felt Screen Rage, a risk at many sites. This arises after you've just filled in every last scrap of personal data, except your shoe size and SAT scores, and the screen freezes on you. Don't think that Mr. Internet has saved anything for you. (If God is a woman, then the Web is a man, silent and indifferent, with a short attention span.) You have to start over. And over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...about us, the Americans here to save them? At their house, a bent-over salmon-colored ranch on a brown-dirt street, they ask us if we'd like to come in for a cold drink. We decline, must move. They scoot out. In the process, the daughter's shoe catches on the seat and loses its heel. She looks up, embarrassed, horrified. "New shoes too," says Mom. We all chuckle and then sigh. Kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

LEAP TO IT When you tell your kid to jump, does she ask, "How high?" No matter; if she's wearing Reebok's new Traxtar shoe, the shoe will answer for her. Designed for kids ages 6 to 11, Traxtar's built-in microprocessor notes how fast its wearer runs, jumps or leaps. As kids move to new performance levels, the shoe's display "pod" flashes and plays Pomp and Circumstance. TRAXTAR.COM, a companion website, offers codes to punch into the pod to make it play other songs. A pair costs $55 for tots and $65 for teens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Dec. 6, 1999 | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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