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An attribute tom valenta once admired in his wife was the methodical way she went about things. "Say we were setting up a piece of kitchen equipment," he says. "She'd have read the instructions and made it work while I was still scratching my head trying to figure out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lest They Forget | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

Cassette-Corder TCM-453V could turn up in a Swallow show soon. If so, its speed control could prove useful. The pace with which Swallow has risen in the art world is staggering: in 1999, aged 25, he went from being on the dole to winning the $A100,000 Contempora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Life at High Speed | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

Yet there's something about her Vanity Fair that doesn't quite work. There is no depth beneath its bright surfaces, no potent emotional undercurrents. One thinks of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, also based on a Thackeray novel about an ill-born social outsider on the rise. It too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lots of Flair, Not Enough Fire | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

Yet there's something about her Vanity Fair that doesn't quite work. There is no depth beneath its bright surfaces, no potent emotional undercurrents. One thinks of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, also based on a Thackeray novel about an ill-born social outsider on the rise. It too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lots of Flair, Not Enough Fire | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

That's no mere fancy. In a study of the 2001 election, Wolfers and economist Andrew Leigh, of the Australian National University, found that while pollsters differed on the outcome and the winner's vote share, punters' money was solidly on the government. And in marginal contests, the favorite won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For a Winner, Follow the Money | 8/31/2004 | See Source »

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