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...difference is that The Producers had a solid, even ingenious, comic storyline - about a Broadway producer who sets out to create a bomb show so he can run off with all the investors' money. Young Frankenstein is, by contrast, mainly a series of goofs on old horror-movie clichés - gags that don't resonate as well on stage, and that lack the comic propulsion that keeps The Producers moving along. That puts a lot more burden on the usual Brooksian jokes about big knockers and small penises - which, as a result, seem more desperate this time around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Frankenstein: Monster Mashed | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

Fourteen other states joined California in the lawsuit, including New Jersey and Washington, and it seems to be on solid ground. Though the White House had initially taken the position that the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide was not a pollutant and therefore not covered by the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Supreme Court eviscerated that argument in a case taken against the EPA by Massachusetts back in April. That the EPA still hasn't ruled on California's waiver shows that "the administration is just trying to run out the clock on global warming," said Philip Clapp, president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Christmas List: Clean Air | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...disappointing season this year, Penn was the runner-up to Harvard in the Ivy League last year and graduated only three seniors from that squad. “Their record belies how good they are,” Kerr said. “Penn is a very good, solid team. They’re quick and agile and they can hurt you offensively.” The Quakers are led offensively by freshman Loukas Tasigianis and junior Alex Grendi, who each have ten points on the season. Defensively, however, the team has struggled, allowing the second-most number of goals...

Author: By Kate Leist, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soccer Hopes to Keep Playing | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...with her lawyerly answers. Her refusal to support higher Social Security taxes on the wealthy is a perfect example. "For the life of me, I don't understand what my opponents are trying to achieve," she said. "It is potentially a trillion-dollar tax increase." Clinton's point seems solid on several grounds. There are higher priorities than Social Security in 2008, especially if you want to enact universal health insurance or a real energy-independence plan, both of which will require revenue increases. And why start the negotiations now, in the Democratic primary? History shows, as Clinton attests, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Hillary Believes | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...that. The prospect of a woman President is so unusual that there is a real need to sell a textbook political image, the notion that Clinton wouldn't be much different from, or less tough than, any of her male opponents. There is a need to show her as solid and personally conservative - the sort of person who won't go crazy on us. And there is the ever present all-too-textbook reality of the Clinton machine: a campaign awash in the dark arts of polling, market-testing and fund-raising (although Obama's groundbreakingly cool campaign is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Hillary Believes | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

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