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When the French talk about love, it's hard to stop them. And no one should try when the French are speaking in one of the dozens of feature films written and directed by Eric Rohmer. The characters in his films were eloquent, addled, obsessively pursuing a line of romantic rhetoric or analyzing the erotic attraction of a teenager's knee. Applying a wry, professorial tone to the book of love, Rohmer beguiled two generations of art-house denizens. His purchase on their finer fancies began with My Night at Maud's, the 1969 chatfest that swept him into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Movie Master Eric Rohmer Dies at 89 | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

Perhaps the show doesn't have the best message: that a woman's total ignorance of her body results in a happy surprise. But that observation is unlikely to stop anyone who can stomach the toilet humor from tuning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant: Travesty or Guilty Pleasure? | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

...Brief History: The War on Christmas" [Dec. 21]: I was raised in a nondogmatic Christian environment. We should stop the discussion on how Christmas is being attacked and let people of each faith celebrate the season in their own ways and places of worship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...this country does not stop its prattling, it will receive a slap in its face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...Egypt, which depends on billions of dollars of annual aid from the U.S., says its actions in Gaza are driven by its own national interest. Not only is there pressure from Washington to stop smuggling into Gaza, but Mubarak is a staunch supporter of the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and views Hamas as an ally of his own most feared opponents, the banned Muslim Brotherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Siege of Gaza, Egypt Walks a Delicate Line | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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