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Perhaps Columbia’s low self-estimation in the case of Riding in Cars With Boys is well-founded. The story is real and gritty—what could, given the right turns of phrase—be the stuff of a great autobiographical novel, but what is perhaps too pedestrian for the film’s slate. Unless director Penny Marshal pulls out all cinematographic stops and carries the film on aesthetic sails alone, the prognosis for Riding in Cars looks grim. At the very least, their pusillanimous, even deceitful, refusal to submit to critical treatment will...
...always been as much art as science. American armies have used psychological operations since the Revolutionary War. Psyops leaflets were passed out to British soldiers at the battle of Bunker Hill promising free land if they defected. Over the years, it gained a reputation as a black art, the stuff of Tokyo Rose and Nazi propaganda. But today's psywarriors are like Madison Avenue advertising executives - except they wear combat fatigues and jump out of planes...
Islamic fundamentalism, race, cultural clashes--this is the stuff of today's front pages, but the men and women TIME has selected for the latest in its series on Innovators have been exploring issues like these on canvas and in other artistic mediums for a long time, in the process changing the way painting, sculpture, film and even sound are perceived. Although the artists were chosen in the weeks before Sept. 11, it's not surprising that their approaches seem so fitting in the weeks after, because in many ways artists are the Ur-innovators. They want to change...
...effort, Bush is the emotional leader, the one who weeps with the families of victims. Cheney plans to visit New York City, but he has told aides that he's not particularly comfortable with the emotional stuff. He would rather influence policy from behind the scenes than try to share in the nation's grief. As he told an adviser, "I'm not good at funerals...
When Murphy talked about experience, he had to be thinking about the offense as well. The Neil Rose-Carl Morris connection is turning into the stuff of legend. Rose hasn’t made one downfield mistake yet, and Morris, despite his punt-returning troubles, is the most explosive player Harvard has had in a while...