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...though, is an opportunity to examine the stately decline of one of literature’s most enigmatic and gigantic figures.“Inherent Vice” is a typically Pynchonian take on the detective genre, starring Larry “Doc” Sportello as a sandal-wearing, beach-dwelling, pot-smoking Private Eye. The paranoiac narrative—situated historically around the 1970 Manson Family murder trial and geographically around the fictional Gordita Beach on the California coast—begins when an old flame named Shasta Fay approaches Doc with a vaguely defined mission: to protect...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pynchon's Noir "Inherently" Minor | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fantastic Plastic | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

Opposite page, from top: Tod's Jelly sandal tods.com) Ralph Lauren Collection Karly sandal ralphlauren.com) Roger Vivier Rosy bracelet and ring (Roger Vivier, New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fantastic Plastic | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...brick wall and lined with potted plants and marble plaques, leads to a small two-room building. Inside, it is quiet and tranquil; a few candles flicker. Kept there are tiny traces of an untold horror that took place nearly 40 years ago: a pair of broken spectacles, a sandal with its straps torn, human skulls and bones. "They speak," says Mofidul Hoque, a trustee of the museum that preserves the site, "of an immeasurable silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Dhaka's Ghosts Alive | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...ended that week. But Cologne had been hijacked by tens of thousands of supporters of Jubilee 2000, a campaign to forgive debts owed by the world's poorest countries. With its roots in Europe's churches, Jubilee 2000 brought together, in a great ring around the city, hymn-singing, sandal-wearing nuns, teenage kids and veterans of progressive politics. As Bono of the rock band U2 puts it, the movement saw "activists, punk rockers and priests marching in step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tony Blair's Leap of Faith | 5/28/2008 | See Source »

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