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...author is a phenomenon," gushed the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Another paper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, called the book "the great coming-of-age novel of the Naughties." But Hegemann didn't have much time to rest on her laurels. A blogger, Deef Pirmasens, became suspicious of the minor's vivid descriptions of drug-fueled nights at the infamous Berlin techno club Berghain and discovered that several passages of the book had been more than inspired by the writings of another German blogger, known only by the name Airen. After Pirmasens posted the passages in question from Hegemann's book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Teen's Debut Novel: Plagiarism or Sampling? | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...fact that my friends and I recreated the Cold War says something about how much we have internalized and moved on from this history. What was once a vivid and real ideological division is now a trifling conceit for board games. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, two years before most of us were born, and we take for granted that it happened and that the free marketers won. Communism has been reduced to a losing strategy, from the day we can say “free parking” or “go to jail...

Author: By James L. Wu | Title: The Meaning Behind Monopoly | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...Heaths find a better example of a public-health campaign in West Virginia. The message used there: drink 1% milk because a glass of whole milk has as much fat as five strips of bacon. That's specific, vivid and easy to remember when you're in the grocery aisle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Your Way | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

Avatar's mantra is "I see you," and its final image is of someone's eyes snapping open. Journeying to the year 2154, moviegoers everywhere have embraced the film - surely the most vivid and persuasive creation of a fantasy world ever seen in moving pictures - as a total sensory, sensuous, sensual experience. The planet Pandora is a wonder world of flora and fauna: a rainforest (where it rarely rains) of gigantic trees and phosphorescent plants, of flying steeds, panther dogs and hammerhead dinosaurs. Audiences are just as beguiled by Pandora's humanish tribe, the Na'vi - the lean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avatar Ascendant | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...daringly minimalist instrumental leading into “Straight in at 101.” “101” is a bitter, deeply uncomfortable track chronicling an empty relationship in typically adjective-laden fashion. It hints at the vivid humor that characterized earlier songs—“I think we need more post-coital and less post-rock / Feels like the build up takes forever, but you never get me off”—yet by the end Gareth still finds himself wallowing in a “sense of waste / The indignity...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Los Campesinos! | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

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