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In E.B White's masterpiece Charlotte's Web, the parents of Fern and Avery Arable watch nervously as the children charge off toward the Ferris wheel and frozen custard, the merry-go-round and wonderful music of a bustling fairground. "Well, they've got to grow up some time," Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Day at The Fair | 7/12/2007 | See Source »

Ar the end of the day-or Evening-what we have here is a movie that is, most fundamentally, an anti-movie. That is to say, it is all wistful regrets about nothing very much, statically staged, lacking in dramatic incident, gripping confrontations, a compelling dramatic arc. There's simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Unenchanted Evening | 6/29/2007 | See Source »

As lorries stream through the steel gates carrying away tons of soft turf being stripped away in search of solid ground on which to build the Ballinaboy refinery, a handful of campaigners huddle nearby in a converted horse trailer, fortifying themselves with hot tea, iced buns and buttered fruit loaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebels of the Bogs Tackle an Oil Giant | 6/1/2007 | See Source »

For Wong Kar Wai, a film is not one big thing - not the Hollywood notion of movies as snowballing sagas of a world in jeopardy and the heroes who save it - but many little things, an accretion of textured images and vagrant impulses. He's a master miniaturist, a creator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Skies and Blueberry Nights | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

“The Fantasticks” is a show that has always prided itself on tradition-bound simplicity. In keeping with this institution, Harvard STAGE’s recent production of the musical in the Agassiz Theatre was adept but conventional, with its success as an enjoyable playgoing experience...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: ‘Fantasticks’ Keeps Light, Fun Tone of Original Classic | 5/13/2007 | See Source »

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