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...watch. She has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and with evidence tampering. They will enter pleas following an arraignment in May. Meanwhile, their MySpace pages remain active. Tess's page lists more than 1100 comments, both pro and con, a little world of sympathy and condemnation. "Killing ur mom is one thing but leaving her in the f-----g trunk of the car for [25 days] and partying in the house is just a sick thing to do," reads one. Says another: "I love you Tess I'm sorry. goodbye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder, They Blogged | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

...kind of subdepartment of Modernism. It flowed through the work of the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, spiraled up the ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, filled the sails of the Sydney Opera House and even ballooned into the later work of Le Corbusier, the Ur-modernist himself. "It never went entirely away," Kaplicky insists, and he's right. But on the whole, and for a long time, it was straight lines that carried more authority. For decades contours endured a kind of underground existence. Anything too curvy risked looking kitschy. Like Jayne Mansfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking Way Out of the Box | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...starter, “Trial by Jury” is overwhelmed by the greatness of the next.The start of “H.M.S. Pinafore” reveals a gleaming set of wood paneling and white paint—the perfect model of a well-scrubbed vessel. Designer Blase E. Ur opens the small stage with two symmetrical white staircases that lead up to a second level, providing the crew of sailors has ample space to dash around. This upper level also hosts the orchestra, whose musical director, Green, sports a naval captain’s hat—all visible...

Author: By Madeline M.G. Haas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Pinafore' Cast Sets Sail to Success | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...Shawn Carter) seemed to know he had cheated the odds when he announced his retirement in 2003. Then 34, he had lived the Ur-rap narrative--make tapes, launch a label, buy a De Beers diamond mine--and bragged about it on a dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mike, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra--another vocalist who made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Un-Retirement of Jay-Z | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...Shawn Carter) seemed to know he had cheated the odds when he announced his retirement in 2003. Then 34, he had lived the ur-rap narrative-make tapes, launch a label, buy a De Beers mine-and bragged about it on a dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mic, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra-another vocalist who made callousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Un-Retirement of Jay-Z | 11/24/2006 | See Source »

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