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...State seals across the country are rife with the conflicted imagery of the periods in which they were produced. Minnesota and North Dakota both feature caricatured Native Americans riding away into the sunset. Florida’s depicts a native Seminole woman ironically juxtaposed alongside the Christian maxim “In God We Trust.” Not a single state seal features an African-American...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: The Semiotics of the Seal | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...There is abeach. I think we can assume it’s thebeach of a key. Tsunami-sized waves totallydefy the tidal pull of the moon anda hot pink house miraculously survivesboth the waves and the lightning directlystriking it. The pink of the house evenmatches the pink in the sunset going onbehind the storm. The house may survivethis tempest, but no such luck forStephen King’s name, written in a shinytypeface—it seems to be sinking into theocean. So we know there’s a storm and anisland—I guess the mystery lies...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BY IT'S COVER | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...with a promise to "make President Bush's tax cuts permanent," an odd choice given that McCain famously infuriated conservatives by voting against Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. In his presidential campaign, McCain has said he supports making the cuts permanent because allowing them to sunset would have the effect of raising taxes, which would be both unpopular and potentially damaging to a weak economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain: Frail with the Far Right | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

...issues and adversaries were much different from today's, but the dispute was perhaps more rancorous. In the 1970s, the stucco box on Sunset Boulevard that housed the Comedy Store was a nightly practice field for up-and-coming comics who would troop onstage to hone their material, try out new jokes - and hope to get seen by the agents, managers and talent scouts who were regular clubgoers. The club's owner, Mitzi Shore - a pretty, petite brunet with a whiny, Roseanne-like voice who had inherited the Comedy Store in a divorce from comedian Sammy Shore - viewed the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Comedy Strike | 2/4/2008 | See Source »

...issues and adversaries were much different from today's, but the dispute was perhaps more rancorous. In the 1970s, the stucco box on Sunset Boulevard that housed the Comedy Store was a nightly practice field for up-and-coming comics who would troop onstage to hone their material, try out new jokes?and hope to get seen by the agents, managers and talent scouts who were regular clubgoers. The club's owner, Mitzi Shore?a pretty, petite brunet with a whiny, Roseanne-like voice who had inherited the Comedy Store in a divorce from comedian Sammy Shore?viewed the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Comedy Strike | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

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