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...through the verbal detritus of civilization and making fascinating sculptures out of what he finds. His poems register pain, but at a distance, transformed into a funny wistfulness, as if it all happened a couple of years and a couple of good martinis ago: "It's really quite a thrill/ when the moon rises above the hill/ and you've gotten over someone/ salty and mercurial, the only person you ever loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poetry: 7 Books of Poetry Worth Curling Up With | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...Woodshop Walter” to VESers in the know—started his affair with sharp objects at a young age. “In Cub Scouts I learned how to sharpen a knife,” he says. “I’ll never forget the thrill of getting a razor sharp tool.” He used his first chisel as a child in the garage of his rural Florida home. Now the official Woodshop Coordinator for the VES department, Stanulcompares working with a table saw to the fox trot...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wood Workin' | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...aesthetic they devised and inspired has gone mainstream, turning up in everything from Danish television shows to bare-bones thrillers like Open Water. As Hollywood players scramble to blow our minds (and blow up their budgets), the dictates of Dogme remind us that cinema isn't just about thrills, spills and special effects - it's about telling a story and telling it well. "We thought it would be fun to forbid everything we normally do in film - music, makeup, effects - everything that comes between the actor, the pure product and audience," says Vinterberg. "That was maybe the highest creative moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Dogme, New Tricks | 4/24/2005 | See Source »

...winners of $10,000 to $2 million are announced. Most vulnerable are the 300,000 people, mostly fathers, who owe more than $1.3 billion in child support. For them, and for recipients of food stamps and other forms of welfare whose benefits would be halted if they won, the thrill of winning may prove to be hollow. FLORIDA Miami Virtue, Miami Vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Nov 4, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...office, I was absolutely certain I would be able to raise the money to make something big of it. In a matter of three years, we worked with Scholastic magazine and got curriculum materials to 20 million high school kids across the country and much more. It's a thrill to look back and see the straight line that started in my childhood. It all goes back to those years living with my grandparents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love of Country | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

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