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...that have a little, very little, popularity. The serious movies Hollywood gives awards to in January and February are precisely the kind it avoids making for most of the year. The Oscars are largely an affirmative action program, where the industry scratches its niche. The show is a conscience soother, but not a crowd pleaser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Film Critics Know Anything? | 12/10/2007 | See Source »

...SOUND SOOTHER 20 RELAXATION MACHINE For anyone kept awake by snoring, this box offers 20 more pleasant soundscapes. If you miss the familiar drone, try the "fog horn" setting. www.sharperimage.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Of Tech | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...wonder drugs in today's medical arsenal, the heartburn treatment Prilosec has long been the most successful. The stomach soother reaped an astonishing $6.2 billion in sales last year to make it the best-selling prescription drug ever--a title Prilosec stands to lose when its patent expires in October. But if the drug's maker, British firm AstraZeneca, behaves like many of its counterparts in the industry, it won't easily relinquish its monopoly. Indeed, sources confirmed to TIME that the Federal Trade Commission has quietly launched an investigation into whether AstraZeneca illegally blocked generic competition to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RX For Nosebleed Prices | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

Lichtman's second objection to the fast is that it is a conscience soother for pampered students who can go out for a meal and rejoice in their generosity. One counter to this point is that some of us actually do fast or even attend hunger banquets; the other being the pragmatic view that the approximately $4000 raised for Oxfam is $4000 more that is going to aid deprived people that would not be sent if Harvard did not hold the fast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go Fast | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

Vision to Inspire. Any director must master formidable complexity. He must be adept at sound and camera work, a soother of egos, a cajoler of artistic talent. A great director has something more: the vision and force to make all these disparate elements fuse into an inspired whole. In The Seventh Seal, Bergman had Death lead a troupe of clowns, obedient to a will larger than their own, across the dusky horizon to oblivion. The scene, still indelible in the minds of most viewers, somehow lifts cinema into the realm of philosophy, psychology and even religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Film Maker as Ascendant Star | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

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