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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When Sylvia Plath killed herself early on the morning of Feb. 11, 1963, she left behind two children, an estranged, adulterous husband, a note for the baby sitter and a neat black binder containing 40 poems. The contents of that binder would become Ariel, one of the most devastatingly moving and universally beloved books of poetry published in the 20th century. But the contents of that binder and what we know as Ariel are not quite the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poetry: The Way She Wanted It | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...often deals in beautiful surfaces and tarnished souls. His 3-Iron is about a housebreaker (Jae Hee) who slips into people's flats when they are away on vacation. Instead of burglarizing the place, he does ironing and fixes small appliances. (Can we hire him as our house-sitter?) On one of his forays he meets a lovely woman (Lee Seung-yun), the abused wife of a golf-mad businessman. A fable of seduction and soul-mating, violence and revenge, plays out in this nearly wordless film that offers a modern gloss on an Asian ghost story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Movie Addict's Dream | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

What if the job doesn't seem worth it, moneywise, when you factor in a baby sitter? QUIGLEY: It may not be. But it can be an investment in something that you hope will grow, even if you don't get an immediate return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conversation: About-Face | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...husband fled to Paris to escape the Russian Revolution of 1917. She studied painting under the Cubist André Lhote and hoped to earn a living from her work, but she did more than merely get by. Her career took off as she managed to secure celeb sitters; her own beauty and dress sense helped her gain entry into the best circles, but she also worked long hours. Her style fused the severe with the alluring: her young women may have geometrically simplified arms, perfect cones for breasts and hair that seems sculpted from sheets of steel, but they also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steely Pretty Things | 7/21/2004 | See Source »

...advertisement offering services as a baby-sitter was the only clue to Pomey’s whereabouts...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Looking Back On Four Years Of Crime | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

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