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...this exurban behemoth (larger than the city of Denver itself, it covers 53 sq. mi.), with its tentlike spires and cavernous, convention-hall interior, has its user-unfriendly quirks. Passengers who are dropped off at the airport by cab or rental-car van find themselves, for some odd reason, at the exit. To reach the ticket counter, they have to lug their bags up an escalator. The three gate concourses are connected by a train system that is fast and convenient--except when it's not working (which lately has not been very often and usually for only short periods...
...also thought it would make a great cover for TIME. Is being a vegetarian really good for you, and does it, as some of its adherents claim, help save the planet? How did this trend go from odd to mainstream? It all tied in, too, with animal rights, which could be the next big social movement in American life. The anti-fur campaign, organic dairies, free-range chickens--they strike me as harbingers of something big to come, maybe not in a decade but during this century. Although I admire the commitment of the animal-rights folks--except for their...
...putting together a puzzle with finite pieces that don't fit. Tempos clash, keys carom off each other--it can be ugly. In 1996 Davis made the pieces fit well enough to create one of the great leaps forward in contemporary pop music, Endtroducing ... DJ Shadow, an album of odd snippets blended into warm songs that serves as a kind of jumbled soundtrack to modernity. The Private Press doesn't have Endtroducing's shock of the new, but its music is just as seductive...
Davis builds his songs like any rock or rap producer. He starts with a drumbeat or bass line, adds piano or guitar to carry the melody, sprinkles in a few odd elements--a triangle, a cello, an organ--to make things interesting, and finishes the whole thing off with vocals. But before he begins, he has to comb through old vinyl bins for raw materials. "In the most passive way," says Davis, "what I put out depends on what comes...
Perdition is a fancy word for hell. It's also one of those curiously ironic names 19th century settlers gave to odd corners of the American landscape. But Sam Mendes' darkly imaginative and powerfully enfolding movie Road to Perdition offers a third, more ironic definition: it's a kind of paradise, a sun-swept beach, complete with a playful, welcoming dog, that a man and his son struggle against malevolent forces to attain--and then lose in an instant...