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...grosses will also be massive. The first film earned $192.7 million in North America and almost exactly the same abroad. The worldwide five-day total for New Moon (which opened two days earlier abroad) is already at $258.8 million; expect a final worldwide gross to near $700 million. The thing's a phenomenon, and all the analysis of its popularity can't explain or diminish it. Sometimes the best strategy for canny film people is to step out of the way and let a hurricane sweep by. Nobody knows anything, except the customers. And you could bet your shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight Sequel New Moon Sets Records at the Box Office | 11/22/2009 | See Source »

...only thing, they continued, that can "cleanse the campus"  is "glorious, vigorous Long Johnson action...

Author: By Hana Bajramovic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Long-Johnson Suggests a Revolution | 11/22/2009 | See Source »

...Ho’s unique sound, likening him to other jazz greats whose personalities and musical voices were inseparable. “You heard one note—Lester Young—and that was his voice,” Everett declared. “I hear the same thing in Fred’s baritone.” Ho’s playing is aggressive, sharp, often filled with wailing shrieks and guttural burps, but it always remains expansive and lyrical. “He can play seven octaves on the bari sax—he can do things...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jazzing Up a Revolution | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Despite his extraordinarily successful career, the composer has still received his fair share of hostile reviews. Rich recalled attending a Washington production of Sondheim’s musical “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” that had garnered such bad press that, he said, “My parents almost considered not letting me use my ticket...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Good Deeds: Sondheim Seduces Audiences | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Late-night digging along the back roads of Bastar, a dense jungle region in India's northern state of Chhattisgarh, can only mean one thing if there's nothing to show for it the next day: Maoist rebel activity. So when a group of villagers in the state's Kanker district, the gateway to Bastar, were kept awake for nights on end last month by repeated chinking from metal striking rock on a nearby road, they knew something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Steps Up Its Fight Against Naxalites | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

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