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...Such a scenario is, of course, the stuff of an anti-Berlusconi filmmaker's vivid imagination. But reality may be inching toward fiction. The Italian Constitutional Court's decision late Wednesday to overturn an immunity-from-prosecution law risks setting off a high-stakes showdown between the 73-year-old Prime Minister and an array of antagonists, real and imagined. (See Silvio Berlusconi's worst gaffes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandal-Hit Berlusconi Must Face Criminal Charges | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...ordered the war in Iraq that killed her 24-year-old son. Michael Moore's 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 created a firestorm of antiwar and anti-Bush sentiment, while thousands of civilian protesters have staged "die-ins" in Washington and across the country to give a vivid picture of the costs of the Iraq war. As that conflict appears to draw to a close, however, the U.S. military is again focusing on Afghanistan. And as it does, those who want the war over are not far behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antiwar Movements in the U.S. | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...book, which hit stores Oct. 5, Greene paints a vivid picture of the budding foodie in utero. A fetus in the second and third trimester has highly sensitive taste buds that, through "practice meals" of amniotic fluid, get to experience whatever Mom is eating. Fetuses remember flavors from this time in the womb and seek them out after birth. This process explains why adopted infants, when swept off to a new culture, years later innately prefer their native cuisine - even though they may never have actually eaten it in the conventional sense, he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Good Food Habits in Kids from the Womb | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

...excels with people. Wiig, rapidly proving to be a solid actress and not just a comedian, has some memorable scenes, as does Shawkat, just coming off a radically different role in Amreeka. The relationships between Bliss and both her parents in particular are nuanced and very vivid. In every scene Harden reminds us that she is, deservedly, an Oscar winner, and Page manages to transcend the dangerous trap of her Juno role and make Bliss very much her own person. When Harden and Page are together on screen, whether feuding or struggling to understand each other, we're riveted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whip It: Drew Barrymore, Director and Roller Derby Girl | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...writes Lethem of Manhattan. The narrative flow, dictated almost entirely by Chase—save for a few exceedingly emotive letters penned by his spacey fiancée and a few events that occur on the periphery of his story—is dimpled with beautifully concise and vivid encapsulations of the utterly mundane and the extraordinary alike.The letters Janice writes to Chase, for example, as the length of her space stay drives her slowly zanier, are worth falling in love over. The detailed precision of her reminiscences delicately counter the truly heartfelt and heartbreaking sentiments she struggles with...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lethem's Novel proves 'Chronic' | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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