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...juggling, fashioning balloon animals, wearing a gag arrow through his head--but the whole thing was set within ironic quotation marks. It was stupid-smart: a clever man playing someone with misplaced self-confidence who didn't realize he was a buffoon. This guerrilla comic in a three-piece suit was daring the crowd to get it. And for a long time, there were no crowds. He had one 3 p.m. gig at a drive-in theater, in front of an audience in a dozen cars with speakers attached to the windows. If people liked a joke, they honked. Occasionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Martin, a Mild and Crazy Guy | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

THINK AHEAD. Some day you'll value a first-floor bedroom, large handles on cabinets and being near a hospital. Also, if you work, the fitness-center hours and other activities may not suit your schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Your Mother's Retirement Community | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...VERDICT The EPA has promised to act by year's end, but the state wants to give the industry time to redesign 2009 models. If California wins, about a dozen other states say they will follow suit with emissions-level laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...innocence of a five-year-old, which stresses his captivation with the world around him. Meyers’ brevity and brooding portrayal underscores his yearning for Layla. Besides Sheridan’s sappy direction, several improbable details ruin the movie. Over the course of time, Louis becomes a suit-wearing exec and starts to date a girl. But then suddenly, without explanation, he moves back to New York, gets his band together, and sets out to find Layla. Unbelievably, Rush absorbs music by osmosis. There isn’t a scene where it takes practice and determination to learn composition...

Author: By Kevin C. Ni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: August Rush | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...it’s up to them to tell us they have a response to those proposals.” For every writer in the streets with a Harvard degree trying to change the status quo, however, there’s a Harvard alum in a power suit trying to bring order to the chaos. Perhaps the most notable figure in the latter camp is Jeffery A. Zucker ’86, a former Crimson president who became CEO of NBC Universal last February. Additionally, senior vice presidents at ABC, CBS, Fox, and HBO are Harvard alums...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan and Katherine L. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: BOTH SIDES NOW | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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