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Some interpret Sarkozy's comments as sniping that the Czechs are not up to the task of running the E.U., a task they took over from Sarkozy himself at the start of the year. There is also whiff of 'Old Europe' sneering at the E.U.'s newer eastern European members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid Crisis, Cars Start to Drive Europe Apart | 2/16/2009 | See Source »

One way the powerful intimidated their victims was to accuse them of being unclean - tidiness being a mid-1950s British preoccupation. In Mick's first chat with Jenkins, he accuses the old man of "stinking the place out," and he ends his final diatribe by saying, "And to put the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

Fleming divided his supervillains into two categories: the bon vivant industrialists whose good cheer hid wicked intentions, and the sneering, solitary madmen plotting universal suffering like a sick nerd in his basement. They were alike though in being chatty brainiac-megalomaniacs whose compulsion to explain exactly how they were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quantum of Solace: Bourne-Again Bond | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

Everything bad about Brett Dennen’s latest album, “Hope for the Hopeless,” is in its first track. Dennen is not a wonderful lyricist, his themes aren’t particularly deep, but as a whole, “Hope for the Hopeless?...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brett Dennen | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

AbFab pulled this off by reveling in its characters' crudeness. NBC's Kath simply smugly insults them - for their clothes, their pop-culture obsessiveness, their eating at Applebee's. It's sneering and unwatchably badly written; it shoots at fish in a barrel and still manages to miss. On NBC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall TV: Remade in the USA | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

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