Word: spokes
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...score to Frida. In 2006, he was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his original three-act opera Grendel, which premiered at the Los Angeles Opera. And on July 1, he makes his return to the big screen with a score for Michael Mann's Public Enemies. Goldenthal spoke to TIME about the compositional challenges he faced in scoring the life of famed gangster John Dillinger (played by Johnny Depp) and the complexities of composing for various media simultaneously. (See the All-TIME best soundtracks...
...Wind, a young writer in early 20th century Barcelona finds that he may have sold his talents and his soul to the worst of bidders. Pulpy, melodramatic and compulsively readable, The Angel's Game is the second of a proposed four books set in Barcelona. Ruiz Zafón spoke to TIME about his obsession with storytelling, the e-book revolution and why the media don't care about literature...
...society of nine people, such relationships are key. In the now famous Virginia v. Black case, the usually quiet Justice Clarence Thomas spoke out passionately against cross-burning, helping push the whole court to find a new area of constitutionally unprotected speech. In a case from this term, an impassioned argument by the court's only woman, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, seemed to sway the court to rule that the strip search of a 13-year-old girl violated her Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search. "Sometimes one person counts for more than one vote on the court," says Yale...
...June 5 at the age of 24, lived in Khayelitsha, one of the largest shantytowns in South Africa. In a country with one of the highest AIDS rates in the world, the fact that Thembi was HIV positive made her a statistic. What made her special is that she spoke...
...Pagano spoke of how the church's insurance carrier refused to cover the event and his the scramble to find a one-day rider. Only one agent in the country was willing to underwrite the event, he said - for $2,600. That, he said, illustrates how insurance companies have too much control over regular people. Those remarks, and others from Pagano, drew spontaneous bursts of "that's right" and "amen." The church eventually found coverage...