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FILM COMPOSERS DON'T write melodies so much as emotions; their music is the heartbeat that gives movie images instant and lasting resonance. Jarre, who died in Los Angeles on March 29 at 84, put this knowledge to use in his first famous scores: the heroic theme that lent a galloping grandeur to David Lean's 1962 Middle Eastern western, Lawrence of Arabia, and the chorus of balalaikas in Lean's 1965 Doctor Zhivago that promised ecstatic reunion after the grimmest separation. In a half-century of movie work, Jarre wrote the music for more than 150 features...
...Vuitton to Dries Van Noten's stylish turbans. Back in New York, I heard about Max Osterweis, an American with roots in Kenya who had set up Suno, a clothing company that employs seamstresses in Nairobi and uses African fabrics. Osterweis felt the need to do more than just write a check to an African-based charity, and many in the luxury business share his commitment to give back. Even in the fine-jewelry business, designers are taking the long view, using reclaimed gold to save one of our most imperiled natural resources. This special supplement to TIME is dedicated...
...imminent completion. But instead of “Legacy,” “Earthrise,” or other sterile, optimistic names suggested by NASA, the winning name was “Colbert.” Television personality Stephen Colbert had encouraged his fans to write in his last name, even though, as he joked, “Houston may have a problem with...
...baby with the proverbial bathwater; nobody’s suggesting that we should lack initiative. It makes sense for those who desire to be doctors to take organic chemistry or engage in lab work now, just as it makes sense for would-be writers to read novels and write for publications. Not setting strict goals, however, is much different from not working hard. Being 30-something and still living in your parents’ basement off vague dreams is not the successful result of a broad education. But to retain forever the mindset of being...
...college have copped to reading these kinds of deliberations. "Facebook has been a wonderful way for us to hear what students are thinking," says M.J. Knoll-Finn, Emerson College's vice president for enrollment. "Before, we'd only hear from the exceptionally ecstatic or upset student who bothered to write in, but now we can see exactly what the average accepted student is thinking and how they're deciding between schools...