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...always shut, with just a few lights left burning. In his pictures, it is always 3 p.m. on a winter's day, the time when children walk home from school and the pubs are closed - the hour that Christ died and the sky went dark, as he was taught at Catholic primary school. He says his paintings are "a mixture of fantasy and memory. I remember it being quite lonely and just wandering about a lot." For those wanting to recapture Britain in all its crumbling, rain-soaked glory, wandering around the work of these artists is worth the trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Legends | 7/7/2002 | See Source »

...April 24 general assembly, I witnessed holders of just 10 shares screaming through greed-distorted faces: "Monsieur Messier, what we want are profiiiiits!" Profits - on 10 shares? At best these cretins would be earning a tip, but their avarice is understandable: they are just dreaming as they were taught to. • And finally, that 4 billion of the 6 billion people on this planet, whose only daily goal is to drum up enough to eat, don't give a crap about Jean-Marie Messier - and that they're wrong in that. It's no doubt owing to our selfish obsessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Fell to Earth | 7/7/2002 | See Source »

...because, not being some dopey quote from a rock group, I thought it marked me as literary. I was a member of the Chess Club and Chem Club and burned everything I tried to make in Mrs. Delminico's home ec class. My favorite teacher was Mr. Botte, who taught biology and liked to animate the frogs and crawfish we had to dissect by making them dance in their waxed pans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: 'The Lovely Bones' | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

Basic steps are taught, but it is the laid-back atmosphere at the practice sessions which leads to breakthroughs in dancing style, according to McFarland...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Unconventional Classes Offered In Summer | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

...classes, which are geared towards beginnners, are all taught by the teammembers...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Unconventional Classes Offered In Summer | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

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