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...stories about a softhearted ogre, was one of the most charming of the new wave of cartoons for the whole family launched in 1989 by Disney's The Little Mermaid. With its fart jokes and self-parodying humor, Shrek was hipper and funnier than the more earnest and straightforward Disney fairy tales, as well as one of the few that appealed primarily to boys, an underserved audience on Broadway, where shows like Wicked and Legally Blonde have become love objects for tween girls. (See TIME's Top 10 Plays and Musicals...
...Turning Savers into Spenders the goal for china's transition sounds straightforward enough. "We've become a big economy," says Wang Zhenzhong, an adviser to the Chinese government and director of the economic-research institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). "Now, we need to become a strong economy." In a nutshell, this means becoming a bit more like Japan by developing domestic, technologically formidable manufacturers, rather than just making a lot of inexpensive stuff for the rest of the world. It also means becoming a bit more like the U.S., where factory jobs have over the years...
...Does your medical training inform your writing in any way? Not that I'm aware of, frankly. Part of the attraction of writing when I was in practice was that it was such a radically different undertaking than medicine, which is very regimented and straightforward. I guess the only thing I would say is, both as a writer and as a doctor, especially in primary care, you have to have a sense of people. It doesn't hurt to have some kind of understanding of why people behave the way they do, what motivates them, what they're afraid...
...between chess phenoms Victor Korchnoi and Bobby Fischer. “Chess” chronicles the competition and the politics that run parallel to the match, as well as a romantic plot involving Trumper’s second, Florence Vassy, and Sergievsky. Suddenly, chess isn’t so straightforward, and the characters become pawns in a game with mysterious players. Despite the title of the musical, “Chess really ends up taking a backseat to the international intrigue and romance,” Bala says. Amid the romance and competition, political tensions stemming from the Cold...
...Ride” and “The World We Live In,” incorporate such a circus variety of sound that they become more overwhelming than enjoyable. Lyrically, “Day & Age” departs from the Killers’ traditionally straightforward lyrics. The songs reveal a darker sensibility. Take “Spaceman,” in which Flowers is abducted by brainwashing aliens, or “This Is Your Life,” where Flowers sings: “The cops, they’ll steal your dreams and they’ll kill...