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Gregory Heisler, who did the cover photograph, says he wanted the image to show genuine affection. So, rather than use professional models, he went out and found some "real dads and their real kids." Adds Heisler: "Instead of doing some slick, over-produced shot, I wanted something more authentic to the experience of being a father." This isn't the first time that Heisler, 39, has conveyed complex ideas for the cover of TIME. His photographs have graced the front of the magazine some 20 times, ranging from Olympic athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee and director David Lynch to former President...
...Exclusionatory?" Hsu uses the word again and again. This guy isn't slick--ne's just earnest. Is he an Edge Man? "Most definitely," he says. "But I'm also a Harvard Man. I'm also a New Jersey Man. I'm also a Community Service...
...pseudo-war chant songs make rap sound melodic. Yes, the plot is thin and predictable and the execution as slick as a frat-party drag show. All that has little to do with why a featherweight send-up of the men's back-to- primal-nature movement ran a year in Chicago and has chugalugged onto off- Broadway. The show offers fans of the departing sitcom Cheers, wondering how to cope without their favorite palookas, a two-hour maintenance dose of Norm, the fat, idle, beer-guzzling oaf with the inexplicably likable stumblebum smirk...
...presents whaling as an "aboriginal" enterprise deeply entwined in its culture; in fact, however, whale meat became popular after World War II, and today only a small percentage of the people regularly eat the $55-a-pound delicacy. The industry has been trying to muster public opinion by distributing slick brochures. One titled "Let's Take a New Look at Healthy Whale Meat" contends that it is high in protein, low in fat and "good for food-allergenic people." Norway's prowhaling position comes in part from the political power of fishermen, who used to hunt whales when fish were...
...truth, when disclosed at the end, seems to belong to a slick thriller rather than to the work of emotional and spiritual impact that Keneally has written. But, as the poet Randall Jarrell said, "a novel is a prose narrative - of some length that has something wrong with...