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...half time of Super Bowl XXXIV in Atlanta, the NFL and Disney will unveil "Tapestry of Nations," a global-diversity play narrated by Edward James Olmos and featuring aerial dancers, puppets, a multigenerational choir, a symphony orchestra, and music by Phil Collins, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton and Christina Aguilera. Too much? Perhaps, though the quality of the Super Bowl's 10-min. themed extravaganzas may actually be improving. Some historical evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Polka? | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...realized he desperately wanted to start his own online bookstore. First he talked it over with MacKenzie. She too had graduated from Princeton, but six years after him; they met at Shaw, where she worked as a researcher. An English-literature major at the university, she had been novelist Toni Morrison's assistant and now had begun a novel of her own. MacKenzie was all for the adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Picking" means roaming the aisles of the Seattle distribution center, filling customer orders from shelves packed with titles arranged according to a bewildering strategy called "random stow" that leaves Toni Morrison: A Womanist Discourse abutting Garfield's Extreme Student Planner. This facility is the smallest of Amazon's nine worldwide distribution centers. But today the place is humming with hundreds of pickers pushing around carts piled high with books and other products destined to land under thousands of Christmas trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruising Inside Amazon | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...generally accepted versions of the New Testament. To suggest that we can learn more about the life of Jesus, based on historical evidence, by reading this apocryphal "gospel" seems an insult to any well-versed Christian with a hermeneutical background. Didn't Jesus warn us against false prophets? TONI BASILIO Filderstadt, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...book's dedication gives the first taste of West's flair for the overly dramatic and sentimental style. It reads "To the memory and legacy of my modern artistic soul mates," then lists twelve artists beginning with John Coltrane and ending with Toni Morrison. West writes in the preface that "This whole [reader]--fraught with tensions and contradictions--reflects my attempt to shatter my own parochial limits and provincial shortcomings...

Author: By Erik Beach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Years of Debate Bound in One Volume | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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