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...piece’s label: “Visitors may touch this object.” So, gingerly, I reached out and gave “Wave” a gentle nudge. The water inside heaved a little and rocked back and forth in gentle undulations. Uh, Cool...
...Americans, it is always hard for us to confront the remnants of former greatness, skewed and corrupted by a decided lack of originality and misguided attempts to be hip and cool. It’s what is vaguely depressing about Rod Stewart cutting an album of jazz standards; the plight of rock stars bereft of new material can’t help but make us sad. In this grand tradition, R.E.M’s new album, Around the Sun, is at some points so frankly ill-advised that one wonders if Michael Stipe had his ostrich feather boa tied...
Remember when knowing about John Woo was the cutting edge of cinematic cool? You know, before he started making claptrap like Paycheck? Well, there is a new Hong Kong action flick that those in the know have been talking about since its 2002 megablockbuster release in its native country: Infernal Affairs. It is the story of a cop who is undercover in the mob and a mob man working undercover as a cop. But this is no namby-pamby Donnie Brasco knockoff. Both sides realize they have a traitor, and the action begins in the classic Hong Kong action style...
Twelve years ago, when Jeff Smith started writing, drawing and self-publishing Bone, a black-and-white comic about three odd-looking creatures lost in a valley of dragons, talking bugs and rat creatures, his efforts seemed like folly. But the series grew into an award-winning favorite of cool kids and hip adults. Now finished and collected as a 1,300-page softcover (Cartoon Books), Bone combines the humor and look of early Disney movies with the scope of the Lord of the Rings cycle. A former animator, Smith draws characters that are both cute and scary...
...functions as something akin to America's economic Prognosticator in Chief. For decades Greenspan, 78, has constantly kept a finger in the air, trying to divine the economic future and determine how best to prepare. Is the economy poised to heat up? Raise interest rates. Is it likely to cool down? Cut them a quarter-point. During his tenure, a period that has stretched over four Presidents and assorted stock-market rises and falls, Greenspan has commanded dozens of interest-rate adjustments. For tens of millions of Americans--investors, traders, homeowners--fortunes big and small have been made or lost...