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...different muscles, for sure. For movies, you have to think of time as set - everything else in music is variable time. In cinema, the composer has to sort of decide in the collaborative sense: Do you want time to seem like it's moving faster or slower? You can play one music to a scene and it seems to last forever, but play a different thing and it just whizzes by. A ballet dancer can take his time with a scene, going a little faster or a little slower, and a conductor can change night after night. There are liberties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composer Elliot Goldenthal | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...probably for centuries. And the thing is, the first time you are introduced to this place, you have the right to choose one book from the hundreds of thousands in this huge labyrinth. And when you pick that book, you become responsible for it, and you have to make sure that it never disappears, that it's never destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...what girls have. Being a modern lad, he doesn't go to the doctor but rather documents his feelings about this development in an online diary, www.zack16.com, complete with video and reader comments. Each day he discovers more and more about what it's like to be female, and sure enough, after about a week and a half - or three videos - he gets a visit from Aunt Flo. You know, the monthly one - used to go by the name the Curse? (See the top 10 tasteless commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Tampon Ad: What If Men Used Them? | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...group of white firefighters who had done better on a test than minority firefighters had. But aside from the ruling's implications for antidiscrimination law, the most intriguing issue raised by the decision is what it might mean for Sotomayor's influence on a court that she is almost sure to join in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Court's Firefighter Ruling Means for Sotomayor | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...post-election mayhem, the government had some reason to believe that the fury would subside. Since Ahmadinejad's victory in 2005, when many voters stayed away from the polls, the reform movement had been largely dormant. So when Mousavi called for a demonstration on June 15, no one was sure how many people would show up. Some of his supporters may well have resigned themselves to defeat--until Ahmadinejad's victory speech, in which he compared the protesters to fans upset about losing a soccer match and called them a minority of "twigs and mote." A number of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Of the People | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

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