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...tired. She has the sniffles. She has never been less interested in a blind date. But then: up-angle, backlight, and there he stands in her doorway, impeccably tailored, elegantly casual in manner?a perfectly beautiful man with, as she soon discovers, a singular style of speech. He is confident without being overbearing, confidential without being intrusive, quite inimitable despite the fact that the actor playing her visitor had one of the most imitated voices of this century. Never in the history of movies has a leading lady more quickly overcome her languors in order to get ready for romance...
...presidential election of 2008 is singular in many ways: it will be the first race in 80 years without an incumbent President or Vice President on primary ballots. And it could conceivably deliver our first female President. Or African American. Or Latino. Or Mormon. The campaign also marks the debut of the TIME Election Index, an original way of tracking the rise and fall of presidential candidates. The Index--hatched in a conversation between our pollster, Mark Schulman, and our national political correspondent, Karen Tumulty, who wrote the introduction to this week's cover--plots the amount of support that...
...works-on-paper). And astute viewers might also note the number of mirror images that appear throughout the show-from Andrew's currawongs and Liu's "ladies" to Peter Kennedy's twinned self-portrait in which he regards his own cancer cells. Made abundantly clear is the camera's singular ability to both mirror life and morph it, expanding our perceptions in the process. As curator Crombie says, "photography is a slippery business. It kind of slips between truth and fiction." And "Light Sensitive" allows us to bask in its many deep, dark reflections...
...glory days, Hollywood made a few series--Andy Hardy, The Thin Man, the Bob Hope-- Bing Crosby Road comedies, and horror films with the whole Frankenstein family. But these were middling fare. The big-ticket items were singular sensations. Nobody made a sequel to Gone With the Wind, Casablanca or Ben-Hur. The industry didn't think in roman numerals until The Godfather, Part II in 1974. But with the triumph of special-effects fantasies like Star Wars, sequels became a smart way to print money. Now they are needed to turn bad years into good ones. The difference between...
...mighty happy that he chose to be FM’s benefactor this year. We will miss Stephen’s attention to detail, ability to write great content at the last minute, and his tender, no-nonsense approach to the steering of our ship. He was a singular leader, and he’s not even that...