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6 Editor’s Desk THE CULTURE 52 Television BRIEFING A new documentary 9 Verbatim on HBO chronicles a Southern city’s 10 LightBox struggle to overcome Baseball in an empty racial strife Baltimore stadium 56 Movies 12 World Writer-director Joss Nigeria rescues girls Whedon returns from Boko Haram; for Avengers sequel Chinese scientists Age of Ultron genetically modify human embryos; 58 Books Ian Bremmer on seal- Kate Bolick’s Spinster ing the Trans-Pacific champions the Partnership deal unmarried life; Lev Grossman on the 16 Nation 50th anniversary of The Comcast– sci-fi classic Dune Time Warner merger In the Kathmandu Valley city of Bhaktapur, Nepalese women mourn relatives is called off; the Time 60 Pop Chart Supreme Court hears lost in the April 25 earthquake. Photograph by Adam Ferguson for Quick Talk with arguments on same- singer Josh Groban; sex marriage David Leventi’s FEATURES operatic photography; 22 Tech extravagant stadium New Uber-like apps 26 A Disaster Foretold snacks for calling roadside A quake had long been expected in Nepal, assistance but political and economic woes hindered 62 The Amateur COMMENTARY efforts to prepare by Nikhil Kumar Kristin van Ogtrop on 24 In the Arena free-range parenting Joe Klein on how 34 Rough Ride Bill Clinton’s fund- A death in police custody exposes deep 64 10 Questions raising could hamper Literary scholar Hillary’s chances divisions in Baltimore by David Von Drehle Harold Bloom Plus: An interview with Baltimore’s mayor and commentary by Tavis Smiley

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LIGHTBOX When a friend offered him a helicopter ride over the The Peerless Mr. Corliss Netherlands’ vast tulip fields, “it was an offer I couldn’t refuse,” says aerial it’s painful to try to find words to and nature photographer George Steinmetz. His approach to capturing describe our cherished film critic Rich- the vibrant patchwork of orchards was to go with his gut: “If you think too ard Corliss, who died April 23 at 71, since much, you screw things up.” See more photos at lightbox.time.com. Richard was such a master of them. They were his tools, his toys, to the point that it felt sometimes as though he had to write, like the rest of us breathe and eat and sleep. It’s not clear that Richard ever slept, for the sheer expanse of his knowledge and writing defies the normal con- tours of professional life. Everyone who had the pleasure of working with him has stories of his kindness, his quirks, his humor, his obsessions, the bright, fresh breezes of his head and heart. And the many millions more who had the pleasure of reading him found the most engaging and trustworthy guide not just to which movies were worth seeing but to the sprawling variety of his interests and passions. Our tributes and a sampling of his writ- ing from his 35 years at Time (which you can find at time.com/corliss) allow us to savor the immense range and excellence of his work as one of the world’s most important voices on film and so many other subjects. NOW ON TIME.COM We will miss him terribly, and our prayers are with Our series his beloved wife Mary. You Asked answers How many your questions on friends a range of popular do I need? BONUS health, science TIME and tech topics. Here, a sampling of A handful of close what’s at time.com/ ones is ideal for youasked: well-being; quality Nancy Gibbs, editor Subscribe to The Brief for trumps quantity. free and get a

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SETTING In “Line of Fire” (April 20), we incorrectly described the THE RECORD outcome of an investigation into the death of Eric Garner. Richard Corliss at his home in New York City in 1988 STRAIGHT A grand jury declined to indict the police officer involved.

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Trading Block ǎH7UDQV3DFLoF3DUWQHUVKLS FRXOGKHOSWKH86FRXQWHU&KLQDLQ$VLD By Ian Bremmer ahistoricdebateovertradeisnow heating up in Washington. President REPORTS SUGGEST THAT TPP COULD BOOST INCOME AND EXPORTS AMONG Barack Obama hopes to persuade Congress MEMBER COUNTRIES BY 2025 to grant him fast-track trade authority to help complete negotiations over the Trans- 12% $150 140 Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive multi- 10.5 GDP gains Export lateral deal involving the U.S. and 11 other 123 10 Percentage change 120 gains Pacific Rim countries. The talks include na- from baseline In billions tions on both sides of the Pacific, ranging of dollars from Japan to Australia to Peru. Together 8 90 with the U.S., the group represents a third of world trade and 40% of global GDP. 68 Given those numbers, the political 6 5.6 60 stakes are high, and emotions are running 40 hot on both sides. Pro-business advocates who favor TPP say it will generate eco- 4 30 nomic gains worth hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade by reduc- 1.9 ing barriers to trade and investment. Pro- 2 0

jected GDP growth in Japan and Singapore U.S. China 0.38 Japan for 2025 would be nearly 2% higher with –0.20 0 –30 Vietnam the deal than without it. Malaysia’s GDP Malaysia

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possibly more than 10%. –2 Vietnam –60 SOURCE: EAST-WEST CENTER Malaysia TPP isn’t expected to move U.S. GDP much, but the White House insists the deal will boost exports by 4.39% over much more than just a trade deal. It is the European Union membership once en- 2025 forecasts. Exports create the kinds of foundation for an intelligent reorientation couraged reform in former communist middle-class jobs that drive longer-term of U.S. foreign policy, one that will help nations. Countries like Poland and Es- growth and reduce income inequality. TPP revitalize the entire global economy and tonia learned to abide by E.U. rules that would also give the U.S. a firmer commer- reinforce security ties with Asian coun- advantage private-sector competition and cial foothold in the world’s most economi- tries fearful of China’s growing regional liberalized labor, trade and investment cally dynamic region, and it could aid dominance. It remains the centerpiece standards. U.S. efforts to negotiate future diplomatic of President Obama’s long-delayed “pivot The deal would provide a landmark agreements in Asia—even with China, to Asia,” a smart plan that could extend win for free markets, the rule of law and which pointedly isn’t a part of the deal. American influence in East and Southeast Western labor and environmental stan- Asia for many years to come. dards while inviting Beijing’s neighbors to those who oppose tpp—such as labor That pivot is overdue. China’s rise has hedge their bets on China by also strength- unions, human-rights groups and envi- challenged the U.S. and its economy by pro- ening investment ties with the U.S. and ronmental organizations—warn that moting a system of state capitalism that other TPP members. It would signal that details of the agreement have been ne- gives political officials a powerful role in America intends to remain in Asia as a gotiated almost entirely in secret. They directing market activity. By using state- stabilizer even as China becomes an ever recall the tumultuous negotiations over owned companies, state-run banks and more influential player. the North American Free Trade Agree- loyal firms to achieve political goals, Chi- And for President Obama, TPP would ment (NAFTA) in the early 1990s, and the na has tilted the commercial playing field anchor the legacy of a leader who has often confident predictions—which detractors away from foreign companies and the U.S. seemed adrift in global politics. ■ believe went unfulfilled—that the pact would create millions of new jobs. tpp can help counter the growth of Foreign-affairs columnist Bremmer is the Both sides miss a critical point: unlike Chinese-style state capitalism in Asia president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is in much the same way that potential consultancy

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Cord cutters Internet and The Rundown public-interest advocates protested the merger FOOTBALL NFL Commis- sioner Roger Goodell announced on April 28 that the league is giving up its tax exemption, hoping to placate members of Congress who have wanted to get rid of that status for years. (Individual teams pay taxes.) The league, with about $10 billion in annual revenue, will file tax returns for the 2015 fiscal year. But it won’t disclose Goodell’s salary—a perennial issue during collective- bargaining negotiations.

BUSINESS On April 28, one of the largest chicken producers, Tyson Foods, pledged to eliminate the use of human antibiotics on its chickens by September 2017. The move is an effort Bad Connection to slow the rise of antibiotic- Why Comcast walked away resistant infections that may stem from overuse of the from its bid to buy Time Warner Cable drugs in farming. BY HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS when comcast and time warner cable Netflix, and 13% have a special multimedia HEALTH first announced their $45.2 billion merger in device that streams Internet video from February 2014, it seemed like all but a done channels like HBO and ESPN. 3.3 deal. The nation’s two biggest cable compa- Comcast and Time Warner Cable tried to Average number of hours of nies did not compete geographically, so there parlay this rapidly changing environment. TV that U.S. kindergartners watch per day, according to was no reason—as their lobbyists told any- With so many new online streaming ser- data presented at the one who would listen—that the marriage vices, they argued, cable TV had to combine Pediatric Academic Societies’ would raise antitrust flags or be stopped. in order to compete. But regulators called annual meeting. The study Fourteen months later, the deal was dead. their bluff. You can’t, after all, watch TV on- found that youngsters who Regulators began to signal their discomfort line without a fast Internet connection. And watched more than an hour last month, and on April 24, Comcast an- 83% of Americans get a fast Internet connec- of TV daily were more likely to be obese than kids with less nounced that it had withdrawn its bid, tak- tion through their cable company. screen time. en its toys and gone home. “Today, we move That’s the iceberg that sank the Titanic. on,” wrote Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. So The biggest cable merger in history, it turns HIGHER ED Since falling what happened? out, wasn’t about cable at all. It was about apart last summer, Corinthian Grassroots activists, who staged dozens of high-speed Internet. A combined Comcast Colleges, one of the nation’s rallies in opposition to the merger, credited and Time Warner Cable would have con- largest for-profit educational themselves. But the forces at play were far trolled roughly 60% of all broadband Inter- institutions, closed its bigger. The media environment in this net connections in the country. remaining 28 campuses. Two weeks earlier, it was fined country—the way that we watch TV and “People began to understand that whether $30 million by the U.S. use the Internet—simply changed faster the cable companies competed with each Department of Education for than anyone expected. other geographically was an outdated way of misrepresenting job- placement rates. From 2000 By the end of last year, people ages 18 to 24 looking at what was going on,” said Robert MATT ROURKE—AP watched 27% less traditional TV than they Cooper, an antitrust expert and partner at to 2010, undergraduate had just three years earlier. Meanwhile, Boies, Schiller & Flexner in Washington, D.C. enrollments at for-profit institutions quadrupled. more than 40% of American households “That paradigm might have held some sway now subscribe to an online TV service like in a world of old cable, but not anymore.”

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It was an unexpected begin- History Test A surprise turn for the high ning to a case legal scholars have court’s debate on same-sex marriage long handicapped as a likely win for gay-rights advocates, which BY MICHAEL SCHERER could make same-sex marriage le- all justice anthony kennedy A SHIFTING to show his cards. He began in- LANDSCAPE gal nationwide when a decision is needed to do was to start with a stead by discussing the rituals of delivered in June. John Bursch, wink or a nod, maybe a stray the Kalahari people, an African Michigan’s former solicitor gener- phrase, to set the nation’s gay- tribe descended from ancient lin- PUBLIC al, did his best to hold back that re- OPINION rights advocates at ease. eage, who never recognized same- 55% of sult, arguing that voters—not For two decades, he has been sex unions as a form of marriage. Americans told courts—should decide whether the Supreme Court’s pivotal vote His point was that marriage had Gallup pollsters the institution should be defined that same-sex for same-sex couples, often tipping until recently always been tied to marriages around the genetic process of re- the balance of a divided bench. He childbearing. “This definition has should be valid production. “The state doesn’t care wrote opinions that struck down been with us for millennia,” he in 2014, up from about your sexual orientation,” he bans on sodomy and ended legis- told Mary Bonauto, the attorney 27% in 1996 said. “What the state cares about is lated discrimination against for same-sex couples. “And it’s very that biological reality.” homosexuals. In 2013 he forced the difficult for the court to say, ‘Oh, LAW To this, Donald Verrilli Jr., the federal government to recognize well, we know better.’” 37 states and Obama Administration’s attorney, same-sex spouses because to do At a historic moment, history the District of offered a warning. Allowing the Columbia now otherwise “humiliates” their chil- had become the issue. Justice Anto- recognize same- bans to stand would return the na- dren. Now the court is confronting nin Scalia pointed out that no soci- sex marriages, tion to a darker era, when many the next questions in the nation’s ety prior to the Netherlands in either by court states had laws that barred inter- rapid cultural transformation: Are 2001 had ever permitted same-sex order, voter racial marriage, a practice the Su- referendum or state bans on gay marriage consti- weddings. Justice Samuel Alito cit- legislation preme Court overturned in 1967. tutional? And if so, do all states ed Plato, who approved of same-sex “You will have a minority of states still need to recognize out-of-state relationships but not same-sex in which gay couples will be rele- same-sex weddings? marriage. “I can’t speak to what gated to demeaning, second-class But as arguments started on was happening with the ancient status,” he said. April 28, Kennedy was in no mood philosophers,” Bonauto responded. On this point, Kennedy seemed sympathetic. When Bursch claimed that granting marriage was unrelated to “bestowing or taking away dignity from anyone,” Kennedy objected. “I thought that was the whole purpose of mar- riage,” the crucial Justice said. “I’m puzzled.” That same sense of equality had been at the heart of Kennedy’s past two rulings on same-sex rela- tionships. He didn’t just strike down antisodomy laws, but he also declared that the effort to jus- tify them “demeans the lives of homosexual persons.” In that case, Kennedy dispatched with a 17-year-old court precedent. Now he faces a bigger challenge: to IMAGES DOULIERY—GETTY OLIVIER weigh the dignity of America’s gays and lesbians against the bur- dens of millennia. ■

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The Blind Spot A Clinton fundraising mess could cripple Hillary’s run for President “you’re singing my song!” hillary clinton told students and educators at Kirkwood Commu- nity College in Monticello, Iowa, near the end of her first official event of the 2016 presidential cam- paign. High school students had been talking about how they were getting a leg up, taking college-level courses at the school and getting both high school and college credits for their work. One young woman said she was going to a four-year col- lege next year and would be able to finish in two because of the credits she’d already accrued—thus cutting her college loans in half. A young man headed to Annapolis was getting a head start on the information-tech and engineering courses he’d have to take at the U.S. Naval Academy. Others, less skilled, were start- ing a vocational path while still in high school, taking courses in auto mechanics and welding that would make them skilled and officially credentialed craftspeople, with plenty of jobs waiting for them. “This is a new vision, a new paradigm!” the candidate exclaimed, referring to the melding of high school and commu- nity college. “This is the kind of thing that can get people excited about our educational system again.” It was perfect Hillary Clinton. She wasn’t faking it. There was no cynicism in the moment. I’ve been watching her hold simi- lar conversations on several continents for nearly 30 years. She’s a wonk; she gets off on programs that work. And it seemed to me that this was a perfect way to launch her campaign, doing The charges leveled against the Clintons by Peter Schweizer something she loved to do—something profoundly unphony— in his book Clinton Cash, and confirmed by a raft of mainstream promoting a program that could really help middle-class Ameri- publications in recent weeks, cannot be dismissed as a right-wing cans. Who could possibly object? hack attack. They are serious, though probably not criminal. The Almost everyone, it turned out. Peggy Noonan in the Wall Clintons are too clever for smoking guns. The bottom line is that Street Journal called it “the most inept, phony, shallow, slickily- the Clinton Global Initiative was used not only to do great works slick and meaningless launch of a presidential candidacy I have around the world but also to enrich the Clintons. No doubt, there ever seen.” Others were less charming. No one—at least that I was a lot of self-delusion going on. Let’s take the case of Haiti, saw—talked about the policies she was promoting in Iowa. It was reported by Fox News. Bill Clinton was co-chair of a board to all about the cynicism of the launch, of Hillary Clinton pretend- give out reconstruction contracts after the 2010 earthquake in ing to be one of the people. “You’ve got to be cynical about the that country. Some of the contracts went to Clinton Global Ini- Clintons,” said a young journalist I admire. tiative donors, most of which were reputable and competent. A cell-phone contract went to an Irish businessman who had been was ready to push back against that. i’ve always a CGI donor; he asked Bill Clinton to make four speeches. The thought that cynicism is what passes for insight among the Clinton Foundation says several of the speeches were unpaid I mediocre. The Clinton I saw in Iowa was real. Sadly, though, but acknowledges that contributions were made. No doubt, the we’ve been reminded in recent weeks that there is another, equal- lad was chuffed to be in the presence of Bill Clinton; no doubt, he ly real Clinton. There are several, in fact. There is the Clinton made his contributions to the CGI in recognition of its excellent who is cautious to the point of paranoia, who surrounds herself work. It is entirely possible that both men thought they were with sketchy sycophants and launches scorched-earth campaigns doing the Lord’s work. But their relationship also contained a against anyone who would doubt her. There is the Clinton who friendly whiff of pay-for-play. adores her husband but—according to the book Game Change— One of the most damning charges, if it turns out to be true— believes she “cannot control” him. It was assumed at the time that and I’ve not seen it disputed—is that since he left the presi- she was talking about sex and keeping his occasionally impolitic dency, Bill Clinton gave 13 speeches for $500,000 or more. He opinions to himself. As it has played out, the real control issue gave 11 of them while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. was about money. He was, and is, her closest adviser. You would have to assume 24 Joe Klein

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lived high until he left the presidency. He’s curbed some of the old excesses—no more McDonald’s; he’s a sleek vegan now—but replaced them with new ones. It is difficult for a poor boy to say no when all these nice, smart, high-minded people are throwing money your way. It’s hard to say no to a private plane. It’s hard to say no when a “friend” invites you to his vacation home, all expenses paid, to rest and relax after all that tough work saving the world. It is very easy to lose touch with real life, with propor- tion, if you don’t have an acute sense of propriety and boundaries. n recent days, i’ve spoken with a bunch of democrats about the Clinton mess. Inevitably, their first reaction is po- I litical. The Clintons were “sloppy” but probably didn’t do anything illegal. It’s “good” that this came out early, they argue; it’ll be forgotten by the time the election rolls around. She’s still a lock for the Democratic nomination and probably the presi- dency, it is said. And how much worse is this than the parade of Republicans crawling to Las Vegas to kiss the ring of the loath- some Sheldon Adelson, in return for $100 million in campaign contributions—or the Koch brothers’ auditions? Isn’t this what American politics is all about now? There is a moral distinction, however, between campaign- related moneygrubbing and the appearance of influence peddling. And in practical political terms, while the Clinton Foundation crisis may not prove damaging during the primary campaign, it may come back to haunt Hillary in the general election—just as Bain Capital did Mitt Romney in 2012. True enough, my Democratic interlocutors say, but there’s a lot of real enthusiasm out there for Hillary. She’s historic. She’s smart and moderate and experienced. She’s probably better prepared for the Awkward topic During her first campaign event, a roundtable in presidency than any of her rivals. Then I ask them: Let’s leave Monticello, Iowa, Clinton decried “unaccountable money” in politics the politics aside; how do you feel about the way the Clintons ran their foundation? “Nauseated,” said one. “Atrocious,” said another. “It’s no surprise,” said a third. a high-mindedness that surpasses all understanding to argue And I suppose that you do have to assume the worst about that these speeches, and the generosity of their funders, had not the Clintons—“to be cynical” about them, as the young reporter even a subliminal impact on the mind of the Secretary. Perhaps told me. How sad. Their behavior nudges up against the precise the most egregious, confirmed by the New York Times, was spon- reason Americans, in both parties, have grown sick of politicians. sored by Russian oligarchs—Schweizer claims some of them had It’s near impossible for Hillary Clinton to go around saying, with KGB ties—for $500,000 as Clinton Global Initiative donors were a straight face, much less a sense of outrage, that the “deck is selling their uranium-mining company, including U.S. assets, to stacked against” everyday Americans when Bill’s partying with the Russians. I believe that the Obama Administration’s “reset” the deck stackers. Even if the appearances of impropriety were for with Russia was more than a shell game to enrich the Clintons, good causes, shouldn’t the arrant naiveté of it all disqualify her but you have to ask: What on earth was Bill Clinton thinking from the presidency? when he took the $500,000 from the friends of Vladimir Putin? Well, maybe not when you look at the Republicans in the What was he thinking when he accepted the “honorary” chan- race, the anger and myopia that have come to brand their party. cellorship and untold amounts of money from Laureate Interna- Wouldn’t Hillary be better than someone who’d blithely court tional Universities, whose affiliate was receiving ever increasing more wars that can’t be won and shouldn’t be fought? Or some- millions of dollars in aid from the State Department while Hill- one who would “abolish” the Internal Revenue Service or allow ary Clinton was Secretary? “creation science” to be taught in the schools? That is the tragedy There is more than the appearance of impropriety here. There of this situation. Bill and Hillary Clinton have made policy mis- is the appearance of plutocracy. There is the reality of platinum- takes, but for the most part they have been creative, judicious and level membership in the society of the rich and self-righteous, sane in office. They are fine public servants. But now—because whose predatory business practices can be forgiven because they of their sloppiness and carelessness and tendency to lawyer the “give back” gazillions—call them the egregiously charitable. truth—the very best-case scenario for Hillary Clinton is that she

CHARLIE NEIBERGALL—AP Bill Clinton has always been a creature of appetites, but he never might be elected President as the lesser of two evils. ■

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afiz mohammad shamshul haq, the imam of the Madani mosque in central Kathmandu, spent the morning of April 25 doing what he always did on Saturdays: after giv- ing some private Quran lessons to Hchildren, he returned to the mosque for a nap. Around the time that Haq bedded down on the floor of the mosque’s prayer room, Rajendra Bhatta, a science teacher in his 20s, was finishing a meal with a friend at a restaurant in the Sitapaila neighborhood on the city’s outskirts. Next door, pastor Bir Bahadur was leading a prayer service at his church with 30 to 40 members of his congregation. As these and other lives unfolded above- ground in Nepal, powerful forces were shifting below the earth’s crust. Forty mil- lion to 50 million years ago, two giant pieces of land—India, then an island, and the sprawling mass known as Eurasia— collided, driving up the awesome peaks of the Himalayas. Down below, under what is now Nepal, the crash tore open a bleeding geological wound where two slowly mov- ing slabs of rock—the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate—continue to collide. These movements generate energy that steadily gathers until one day, when there is a sud- den, large shift in the plates, that energy is rapidly released in the form of seismic waves that ripple out, shaking everything in their path. Experts had been warning for years that it was a question of when, not if, Nepal would be hit by a significant earthquake—a big one to match the 8.1-magnitude disas- ter that struck in 1934, killing over 10,000 people in Nepal and the eastern Indian state of Bihar. So when Nepal shook that Saturday from the force of a 7.8-magnitude rupture, “it was no surprise whatsoever,” says Susan Hough, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey. No surprise to the seismologists, per- haps. Shortly before noon—as Haq snoozed, Bahadur neared the end of his service and Bhatta used the washroom while his friend waited outside the restaurant in Sitapaila— violent tremors destroyed ancient Hindu temples in Kathmandu and triggered dead- ly avalanches around Mount Everest. The epicenter was some 48 miles (77 km) north- west of the capital. “This is the earthquake 28 Rituals Funeral pyres burned day and night along the banks of Kathmandu’s rivers. The quake’s death toll is over 5,000

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Mourning Survivors weep at the loss of four relatives in Kathmandu. A quarter of Nepal’s population has been affected by the quake

ADAM FERGUSON FOR TIME we’ve been waiting for,” says Hough. The tremors, which killed over 60 people in northern India and at least 25 in Tibet, were followed by powerful, panic-inducing aftershocks. Near Everest, at least 17 climb- ers died in a roaring avalanche. The death toll throughout Nepal has been rising steadi- ly, exceeding 5,000 by April 29. That number is likely to rise further as the impact outside Kathmandu becomes clearer—and it is one that included Bhatta, who was crushed when the restaurant in Sitapaila collapsed. Bhatta’s body was recovered by an Indi- an rescue team that arrived in the country hours after the earthquake, part of a wave of international teams that rushed into Nepal to help with relief and rescue operations in Kathmandu and the villages beyond, where many have been totally cut off by landslides. The earthquake destroyed many of the frag- ile infrastructure and communications links around what is one of Asia’s poorest countries. Entire villages have reportedly been flattened, with 8 million people affect- ed, according to the U.N.—about a quarter of Nepal’s population. Though efforts had been made to help Ne- pal strengthen its defenses against a major natural disaster, the earthquake-prone na- tion struggled to prepare. “People have been trying for a long time to improve prepared- ness and resilience, but they’re resources- strapped,” says Hough. Some 2.5 million people now live in the Kathmandu Valley, a figure that has been growing by roughly 4% per year, making it one of the fastest- growing urban regions in South Asia. New building codes were introduced in 1994 to stop the spread of shoddy constructions prone to collapsing too easily. But they were never enforced properly. And it’s not just the ground beneath Nepal that’s shaky: a bloody, decade-long insurgen- cy by Maoist rebels claimed around 13,000 lives before it ended in 2006. Soon after, the country’s monarchy—the target of the rebels—was abolished. Before and after, bick- ering among the country’s leaders touched off a series of minicrises. “We have had no political stability,” says Nishchal N. Pandey, director of the Centre for South Asian Stud- ies, a Kathmandu-based think tank. The gaps in preparedness were apparent in the immediate aftermath of the quake. Only one of the six operating rooms at the time May 11, 2015 31 WORLD | NEPAL

national trauma center in Kathmandu could be used the day after the quake, as stocks of anesthesia medicine and other supplies ran low. In Sitapaila, the tools needed to tackle what was left of Bahadur’s church only ar- rived with the international rescue teams late on Saturday. By Monday morning, just one man, a member of Bahadur’s congrega- tion, had been pulled out alive, along with at least nine bodies. There was no word on Ba- hadur or the others who attended the service. But even those lucky enough to have sur- vived the quake are still in grave danger. Up in the rural districts northwest of Kathman- du, premature rains and the monsoon that arrives in two months could cause flooding and the spread of waterborne diseases, says Jamie McGoldrick, the resident coordinator for the U.N. in Nepal. “We won’t get a build- ing program in these areas for some signifi- cant time. And so people will maybe have to spend three, four months in a tent.” Haq, the imam, says he’s been praying for his country’s recovery ever since the quake. Jolted awake by the tremors, he felt as if the floor beneath his body were float- ing on angry waves. Outside he saw the Dharahara, the lighthouse-like 19thcentury watchtower that stood directly opposite his mosque, burst open at its base. All morning, scores of tourists had been going to the nine-story tower to catch panoramic views of the city. As the quake struck, Haq saw chunks of the tower crash to the ground, where many more visitors were waiting to go up. “It fell, and every- thing went dark,” he says, describing the moment a large section hit the ground, crushing a busy Indian-food stall and send- ing up clouds of dust and debris that blocked out the sky. Haq fell to the floor. When he got up, all that was left of the Dharahara was a 30-ft. (9 m) jagged-edged section of the base that looked as if it had been bombed, surrounded by chipped bricks. The paint had been blast- ed off by the force of the tremors. Still, says Haq, “we were lucky.” The Dharahara had been rebuilt after being damaged in previ- ous earthquakes, including the one in 1934. The imam is praying that it—and Nepal— will rise again. —with reporting by rishi iyengar/hong kong, deepak adhikari/ kathmandu and justin worland/ new york ■ 32 Among the ruins A boy surveys the damage in the ancient city of Bhaktapur, in the Kathmandu Valley time May 11, 2015 ADAM FERGUSON FOR TIME NATION

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baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings- Blake was in church when she heard that Freddie Gray was dead. She says she knew “immediately” that this was something more than the depressingly common pass- ing of another young man in a troubled old city. Black men dying at the hands of police had become “a slow-rolling crisis” in BAmerica, as President Obama would put it nine days after Gray’s death. And Freddie Gray was a black man who entered a police van handcuffed and conscious on April 12 and came out less than an hour later coma- tose, with his spinal cord nearly severed. The what, the how and the why of Gray’s fatal encounter with Baltimore police re- mained a mystery more than two weeks af- ter the event. But the mayor could hear that slow-rolling train pulling into her town. And when rioting broke out after Gray’s fu- neral on April 27—a night of arson, looting and brick throwing that led the mayor to declare a 10 p.m. citywide curfew as Mary- land Governor Larry Hogan called out the National Guard—it became clear the train was pulling a lot of baggage cars behind it. The city that lures visitors with crab cakes and the legacy of Edgar Allan Poe paid out nearly $6 million in settlements to more than 100 victims of police brutal- ity in the four years from 2011 through 2014, according to the Baltimore Sun. Those victims ranged from young teens to a 26-year-old pregnant woman to an 87-year-old grandmother. Gray was not the first person to suffer a disastrous spinal injury in the confines of a Baltimore po- side the drug trade, and the police are more Crisis center After riots erupted April 27, lice van. Jeffrey Alston successfully sued feared than trusted. The neighborhood of Mayor Rawlings-Blake urges calm at the site the city in 2004 after a van ride left him Sandtown-Winchester, where Gray was of a burned-down building paralyzed from the neck down. The family arrested, is part of this Baltimore. So is of Dondi Johnson Sr., who died two weeks Mondawmin, where the riots began after butcher shops, clothing stores, supermar- after sustaining a spinal injury in custody, a confrontation between city police and kets, all destroyed for one reason or another.” won a similar suit in 2010. In Baltimore schoolkids who had gathered in the area. While the city’s population may have slang, it’s called going for “a rough ride.” And so is Broadway East, where a $16 mil- stabilized at about 600,000—from a peak When police violence is so common lion residence under construction for low- of nearly 1 million—Baltimore’s poorest it has its own patois, a city has a prob- income seniors burned down in what the areas are stagnant. There are roughly 16,000 lem. But Baltimore’s problems have been mayor is calling a riot-related case of arson. vacant homes throughout the city, many carefully and colorfully documented for Baltimoreans of a certain age know that of them in Sandtown-Winchester, where a years. While tourists enjoy the Baltimore change is hard, yes, but riots don’t make it quarter of the houses sit empty. According of the Inner Harbor—a growing, high- any easier. They lived through 1968, when to a 2011 report by the Baltimore city health end, pedestrian-friendly magnet for ris- rioting after the assassination of Martin department, the neighborhood is long on ing millennials—television viewers are Luther King Jr. left six people dead and 700 liquor stores (double the city average) but TIME FOR SWALL—GRAIN LEXEY more familiar with the Baltimore of The injured, and some 1,000 businesses were short on jobs (the unemployment rate is Wire. That’s a city where the population looted. Almost half a century later, parts also double the city average). One in 4 juve- crested in 1950 and the receding tide of hu- of the riot zone have yet to bounce back. niles was arrested at least once from 2005 manity left behind entire neighborhoods “We never really recovered from the riots to 2009. “It’s one of the most disinvested of dilapidated row houses and shuttered of 1968,” says city council president Jack neighborhoods in our city,” says Lawrence factories. Here, opportunities are few out- Young. “Our infrastructure was destroyed: Brown, a community activist and professor 36 INTERVIEW MAYOR UNDER FIRE: ‘DO I LOOK LIKE I’M HAVING AN EASY TIME?’

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings- Baltimore and has experienced the Blake spoke with Time’s Josh Sanburn on pain of loss from the violence that April 28. Here is a condensed account of we’ve seen in our streets and has that interview. been concerned about my brother and his friends being profiled nega- Why did Baltimore explode tively because they were young black the way it did? men, I get it. Baltimore has a long and challenging history with issues of trust or mis- You found your brother after he was trust between the community and stabbed in a carjacking years ago. Do the police department. You layer that you see parallels between what hap- on to an in-custody death. You layer pened to him and what happened in on opportunists who are looking to the riots? co-opt the raw emotion of a commu- The kids that did this were the same nity for their own benefit. It makes age of the kids that you saw out there, Baltimore vulnerable and so many 15 and 16. And you just—it’s so im- other places around the country portant that we get this right for our vulnerable. kids that they don’t continue to make these types of devastating mistakes How would you say you’ve handled in their life. this crisis? I have to focus on running my city, But you made comments about and that’s what I’m doing. When I “thugs” looting the city and “giving look in the mirror, I’m very comfort- those who wished to destroy space to able with who I see. I’m comfortable do that.” Do you regret saying those with how we’ve responded in very, things now? very challenging times. I wish I could say that I was a person that never made any mistakes. But Maryland Governor Larry Hogan I’m not. I’m human. And in the heat said he activated the National Guard of the moment, I said something. “30 seconds” after you requested I joked and said it was my anger of health policy at Morgan State University. them. Did you get the sense that he interpreter that was speaking over And Baltimore, for all these reasons, has be- was waiting on you? my shoulder. come America’s latest poster city for racial I got the sense that the governor But like I said, I’m human. I and economic discontent. didn’t have a full understanding make mistakes. Hopefully people of all things that were being put in see that I’m big enough to own ’em. A “Slow-Rolling Crisis” place. When we are in the midst of I tried to explain the situation and for nine uncomfortable months we dealing with an issue, you have to be how—calling the people thugs on have wrestled in new ways with our very judicious about the use of the that—but on the other thing, I tried centuries-old conversation about race. The National Guard. They’re viewed by to explain a situation and clearly did roots of these days of rage, whether in Fer- the community as a sign of militari- a poor job. Most of the people sitting guson or North Charleston or Baltimore, zation. They’re viewed by many as a in the room understood very clearly reach down through decades of compound- sign of escalation of an incident. what I meant. But sometimes you can ed failures. Each flash point is different; so have the best of intentions, and I feel was each community’s response. But there Has being a black mayor working pretty decent, like I’m a pretty decent is something universal about them all. As alongside a black police commission- communicator. But you never know Obama noted, during remarks in the Rose er made dealing with this situation how those things—for the people who Garden that ranged from determined to any easier? aren’t in the room, you don’t know despairing, “I think we, as a country, have Do I look like I’m having an easy how they’re going to be received. And to do some soul-searching. This is not new. time? I think it would be hard to the words that I chose didn’t really It’s been going on for decades. And without take a look at the week that I’ve had reflect my heart and what I meant making any excuses for criminal activities to suggest that it’s easier. I can say, to say. I would never give space for that take place in these communities,” he for somebody that has grown up in people to destroy our community. time May 11, 2015 37 NATION | BALTIMORE

Road to recovery Community members near the site of the worst unrest hold a peace circle and help clean up on April 28 continued, in Baltimore and elsewhere “you from the religious leader Mary Elizabeth neighborhoods around Baltimore. Polic- have impoverished communities that have Lange to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood ing in more-affluent white neighborhoods, been stripped away of opportunity, where Marshall (who once lived in the neighbor- he says, is almost always more respectful children are born into abject poverty.” The hood where Freddie Gray died). than in poorer black ones. “We live in an parents, “often, because of substance-abuse But it turns out that diversity at the antebellum society in terms of racial jus- problems or incarceration or lack of educa- top and integration of the middle class are tice,” he says. tion themselves, can’t do right by their kids.” challenges of a different order than the cri- Police Commissioner Anthony Batts, The President was frustrated that atten- sis of the left behind. Those African Ameri- who came to the city after leading police tion to this tangle of problems is so sporadic, can police officers are not likely to live in departments in Oakland and Long Beach, with satellite trucks and blue-ribbon pan- Baltimore’s most troubled neighborhoods, Calif., has used similar language. “When els dispatched only “when a CVS burns ... and when Mayor Rawlings-Blake initially I came to Baltimore, it was like going back when a young man gets shot or has his characterized the rioters in her city, she in time,” Batts said in an interview earlier spine snapped.” But Baltimore is as good a chose a word—thugs—that seemed to dis- this year. Parts of the city, predominantly place as any to learn just how complicated tance her from the deeper problem. white, are full of “old money ... very affluent, and change-resistant these problems can be. This isn’t to say that race has no part in very beautiful.” Those stand apart from the Endless rounds of school reforms have the toxic tangle. Joseph Capista, a lecturer “areas that are very challenged.” This sharp produced results—but slowly. The gradua- at Towson University who helped orga- segregation is the lens through which Balti- tion rate is rising but still remains substan- nize demonstrations outside Gray’s wake more sees its problems. “It’s about black and tially lower than the statewide average. on Sunday, says he has lived in several white racism in that city. It’s all the things The number of students taking AP exams you dealt with in the 1960s,” Batts said. rose 9% last year, but city students pass Signs of Hope them at less than half the rate of their peers IMAGES GETTY 1968: (3); BALTIMORE, ALLEN DEVIN outside the city. Crime rates have fallen the city passed a tense but mostly sharply over the past two decades, mirror- ‘WE NEVER REALLY peaceful night after the rampage of April 27, ing a national trend—yet they remain sig- RECOVERED but officials were taking no chances. School nificantly higher than in most U.S. cities. was canceled, and after postponing two Baltimore’s troubles persist despite the FROM THE RIOTS games, the Orioles played inside a shuttered rise of a generation of black leaders and a OF 1968. OUR Camden Yards on April 29—the first time a highly diverse corps of public employees. Major League Baseball game has ever been The mayor, the schools’ CEO and the police INFRASTRUCTURE closed to the public. Somehow, given all that chief are all African Americans, and 48% of WAS DESTROYED.’ is true of Baltimore and all that has fed the the police force is black. Indeed, Baltimore —jack young, city council nation’s slow-rolling crisis, it seemed too has always produced strong black figures, president much to hope that the worst might be over. 38 VIEWPOINT IT’S A DIGNITY THING— DEMOCRACY IS THREATENED BY RACISM AND POVERTY BY TAVIS SMILEY the two seminal pieces of legis- contain the rage, helplessness and lation in the 20th century happened hopelessness. But they could not stop just before the tumult of 1968—the what was happening on the streets in Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Vot- Newark, N.J., in Detroit. And Barack ing Rights Act in 1965. Fifty years Obama is not any more able to stop later, we ought to be in a season of cel- it in 2015 than King was in 1968. The ebration. Instead, we find ourselves suffering of everyday people gets in an American catastrophe. Trayvon rendered invisible if they don’t find a Martin. Eric Garner. Freddie Gray. way to express it. On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther Are these riots, or is it an uprising? King Jr. gave the most controversial Semantics. Detroit then was a choco- speech of his life, “Beyond Vietnam.” late city. Baltimore now is a chocolate A year later to the day, almost to city. But Detroit had no black power the hour, he was assassinated. In structure. Baltimore today has a that speech he had pointed out a black mayor, a black police chief and triple threat facing America: racism, a black President of the United States. poverty and militarism. In 2015, And they are all essentially powerless what are the issues still threatening to stop it. But if the peace holds in Baltimore, it our democracy? Racism. Poverty. These riots aren’t a black or white will not be because of outside intervention. Militarism. thing—they’re a humanity thing, a Rather, the solution will have come from King’s views about how to redeem dignity thing. When the mayor and within. For every rioter, the city’s neighbor- the soul of America had fallen on the police chief and the President can- hoods produced more men willing to lock deaf ears. The younger generation not explain to fellow black citizens arms to form a buffer between demonstra- wanted something more tangible why Freddie Gray is dead, somebody’s tors and police, more teenagers willing to than nonviolence. When Mag- got to be held accountable. sweep sidewalks clean of broken glass. In nificent Montague, one of the most Today, you don’t have the Klan, one indelible image, a mother took her ram- well-known black radio hosts in Los and you don’t have Emmett Tills or pant son by the ear and hauled him home. Angeles, used the phrase Burn, baby, Medgar Everses, but it’s more insidi- When police cited reports that gangs were burn, that resonated. 1968 was also ous in that predatory policing is hap- threatening to kill cops, members of the the year of the Mexico City Olym- pening under the rule of law. rival Crips and Bloods answered by call- pics, when Tommie Smith and John Sadly, when these incidents ing for peace. “We don’t want nobody to get Carlos held up their fists with the happen, we have a sort of fake and hurt,” a self-professed gang member told a black gloves. The young people were fleeting national conversation about reporter for the Sun. chanting, “Black power!” police misconduct and race relations. The men and women who leaped to de- Black leaders thought they could And then we return to business as fend and repair their neighborhoods are the usual. Until it happens again. agents of hope that Baltimore so desperately We must find the courage needs, and theirs is the energy that might be to address what kind of nation harnessed to meet the daunting challenge we want to be. If we don’t have of what comes next. Obama was right when the courage to do that, then he said “there are police departments that I shudder to think what hap- have to do some soul-searching,” and Balti- pens to America in the com- more’s is obviously high on the list. But as ing months and years. he went on to say, our communities—and Protests and riots— the whole nation—have soul-searching to uprisings—could become do as well. We might start by noticing not the new normal. Welcome just what went wrong in Baltimore but also to the new America. what went right. —with reporting by josh sanburn and alex altman/balti- Smiley is host and managing editor more, massimo calabresi, maya rhodan Unrest Police carry away a young man during of Tavis Smiley on PBS and au- and michael scherer/washington ■ riots in Baltimore in 1968 thor of My Journey With Maya time May 11, 2015 39 LIVING The Idea Factory Quirky is inventing the sleeker, smarter home of the future, one everyday product at a time BY VICTOR LUCKERSON

n a recent spring eve- “Don’t they already have this for dogs?” ning in Manhattan, rough- But suddenly, the mood shifts. On- ly 200 people gathered in screen: a home candy dispenser that a waterfront warehouse automatically orders refills when its O to witness what could be contents get low. Crowd suggestions called the Hunger Games abound. What if the sensors could de- of invention. Onstage, tect levels of other common kitchen dry the master of ceremonies—a 28-year-old goods, like rice or nuts? (Indeed they can, entrepreneur named Ben Kaufman— says an engineer.) Or what if it were tied runs down a list of product concepts, all to a subscription service that occasional- submitted by people online. Most of the ly sent surprise treats? Could that service ideas are dead on arrival. “It would make also let people make “playlist queues” of a good adult toy,” jokes one audience their favorite foods? member of a pocket subwoofer. When a Kaufman calls for a vote, counts wearable Bluetooth tracker for kids is dis- the tally and smiles. “Congratulations, played, another audience member snipes, Fluffy,” he says, addressing the user who

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2 A sampling of existing Quirky products LIVING | SMART HOME submitted the original concept. “You’re a Quirky inventor!” In other words, Fluffy (real name: Roy Johnson) has just become part of one of the most ambitious experiments in retail his- tory. Put simply, Quirky is an invention- centric social network that also makes and sells general household products, all of which are dreamed up by its users. Ev- ery week, thousands of people—of all ages, nationalities and genders—submit ideas for stuff they think will improve lives, including detailed descriptions and visu- als. Then the site’s 1 million–plus mem- bers offer feedback on everything from aesthetics to usefulness to whether or not a name sounds weird. The most popular pitches, like the smart candy dispenser, make it to live evaluation sessions. If a product is approved, Quirky’s engineers are given the official green light to start working on it, and if all goes well, it goes to market. “We’re for the people who have a great product idea and want to see it out in the world but don’t want to quit their job, live the entrepreneurial life and eat ramen every day,” says Kaufman, Quirky’s CEO. “We’re for the people who have a great idea and want to see if it’s viable.” Thought leader Kaufman, 28, started Quirky to help inventors scale their best ideas Since Quirky’s launch in 2009, that model has produced dozens of ingenious products, including a bendable power saving Aros air conditioner—with a con- best ideas in the world must actually not strip (Pivot Power) and a colorful desktop cept from a Quirky user—was named one be in the world,” he says. “They must be in cable organizer (Cordie), both of which of Time’s best inventions of 2014. people’s heads, because this whole execu- sold more than a million units and netted For consumers, the payoff could be big- tion part is really hard.” six-figure sums for their original creators. ger. Within large companies, “people have After Kaufman sold Mophie for an un- (Quirky shares a percentage of its revenue a tendency to hire people that think like disclosed sum in 2007, he decided to build with them.) Quirky wares are now avail- them and act like them,” which can stifle a company that would streamline that able at more than 20,000 retailers nation- creativity, says Kris Doering, an analyst at process—“making invention accessible,” wide, including Walmart, Best Buy and research firm Gartner. By partnering with as he puts it, to anyone with a great idea. Home Depot. Sales totaled almost $50 mil- Quirky, those companies get access to thou- Two years later, Quirky was born. lion last year, up 70% over 2013. sands of nimble new thinkers who may In the beginning, its products matched Now Quirky is looking to reinvent it- suggest more useful ways to make house- its name. Kaufman oversaw the develop- self. In April, the firm announced it was hold products for the rest of us. Consider ment of hit concepts like Pivot Power and teaming up with Mattel to solicit concepts the English teacher pitching a diaper bag Cordie, as well as a customizable pocket for “the future of play,” the latest in a series with a privacy flap for breast-feeding, or the knife (Switch), a balance-tracking piggy of partnerships that encourage Quirky’s 5-year-old suggesting a brush-tube hybrid to bank (Porkfolio) and more. Unlike many diverse mix of amateur inventors to pitch make it easier to brush his teeth. “That’s the products pitched on Kickstarter and for major brands. Among them: Harman beauty of Quirky,” says Michael Sullivan, a Indiegogo—which leave inventors to their Audio and GE, whose elegant, energy- marketing director for Fisher-Price (which own devices after they get funded—all is owned by Mattel). “What will emerge is these ideas actually made it to market. something we weren’t expecting.” But as the builder-, backer- and brander-in-chief, Quirky also had a lot to kaufman first knew he wanted to lose. It spent millions in venture capital Quirky already help people develop their big ideas after developing ideas, like a combination Blue- struggling to realize his own. As a teen- tooth speaker and phone-charging station, makes a variety ager in 2005, he persuaded his parents to that tanked with consumers. It struggled of smart sensors, remortgage their house to fund his first to compete for retail space against bigger switches and outlets. company, the iPod-accessory firm Mophie home-goods companies. And in the spirit TIME FOR MYERS B. ANDREW (now famous for its iPhone cases that dou- of appeasing its eager community, it also But the smart-home ble as battery packs). But all involved were dabbled in sectors like security that were space is still waiting initially overwhelmed by the logistical at odds with its colorful, fun-loving brand challenges of running a business: manu- identity. “No one wants to buy a lock from for its killer app facturing, marketing, retail, cost of goods, a company called Quirky,” Kaufman says. engineering. “I started thinking that the “That’s just weird.”

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Its new strategy aims to assuage those pain points. By “powering invention” for The Future of Play? more-established companies, as Kaufman After Quirky announced its Mattel partnership, we surveyed some of the puts it, Quirky not only lowers its own best user-submitted toy concepts (which may or may not get made) financial risk but also gets to leverage de- cades of billion-dollar brand building. That means instant consumer trust (or at least awareness), large teams to test products and hundreds of patents at its disposal. “It just gives you a bigger pot to swim in,” says Michael Taylor, a Georgia-based business analyst who has invented several smart- home gadgets for GE through Quirky. By 2017, 60% of tech companies will crowd- source some part of their product develop- ment, Gartner estimates. It’s a risky maneuver. In order to move forward with their new model, Kaufman REUSABLE PIÑATA TIME-OUT TOY BOX Made from plastic instead of Enables parents to lock up their and his team had to cut some of the com- paper, its pieces can be kids’ playthings for a select pany’s more popular policies, like sharing reassembled after it has been amount of time and unlock 10% of a product’s revenue with its original smashed open. them via a smartphone app. creator. (It’s now 5% or less in most cases.) Submitted by Veronica Rodriguez Submitted by Glenn Beaulieu New policies also make it harder in gen- of Fremont, Calif. of Palm Coast, Fla. eral for the quirkier ideas to become real- ity if there’s no interest from a corporate partner. “The fundamental culture around invention between huge companies like GE and what Quirky is trying to do, the sort of do-it-yourself-type model—they conflict heavily,” says Gordon Burtch, a decision-science professor at the University of Minnesota who studies crowdsourcing platforms. Quirky says it isn’t wholly ceding its in- dependence. Beyond the corporate partner- ships, Kaufman plans to invest significantly in connected devices. Quirky already makes a variety of smart sensors, light switches 360-DEGREE ROLLER SKATES NEXT-GEN RUBBER DUCKY Users propel themselves on balls Touts a motorized propeller to and outlets. In March it launched its first rather than wheels, allowing them speed through bathwater and a original brand, Poppy, which offers high- to move in any direction and burn speaker so it can quack when end home appliances like a pet feeder that more calories. kids interact with it. can be programmed from afar (originally Submitted by Anthony Rodriguez of Submitted by Amanda Johnson pitched by a dog owner from West Bend, Las Vegas of Dover, Del. Wis.). The smart-home space is “still wait- ing for that killer app,” says Niall Jenkins, a smart-home analyst for research firm IHS. Quirky may well assist in developing it. For now, however, Kaufman remains fo- cused on his most important job at Quirky: cultivating a loyal, enthusiastic commu- nity of everyday geniuses. Throughout the company’s transition, he has worked to keep them in the loop about why and how Quirky is changing its model—there are sales figures posted publicly under every invention—and as a result, he says, the backlash has been minimal. Every Thursday night, he’s also at that waterfront MULTIPURPOSE VOLCANO BLUETOOTH WATER BOTTLE Features a steep incline, so Connects to a mobile app via warehouse (a.k.a. Quirky’s headquarters), cars can roll down and onto a Bluetooth to let parents track cracking jokes, unveiling ideas and tally- course, and a hollow interior their children’s water intake. ing votes for the Next Big Thing, even if it for storage. Submitted by Jackie Silva of ultimately gets made by GE or Mattel. Be- Submitted by Peter Provart of Boston fore those sessions, Kaufman has only one New Milton, England hard rule: no peeking at pitches. “I like the element of surprise,” he says. ■

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film critics can sometimes be intimidat- Master II) but also the more demanding works ing figures: self-assured, cynical, crusaders for of filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman, Werner an overlooked masterpiece one week, debunk- Herzog and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He re- ers of your favorite movie the next. Richard vered the classical storytelling of Hollywood Corliss, Time’s movie critic for the past 35 greats like David Lean but was also drawn to years, conveyed nothing so much as the sheer dazzling, over-the-top stylists like Baz joy of watching movies—and writing about Luhrmann. Before coming to Time he wrote a them. He savored it all: the good, the bad, the dismissive review of a surprise hit called Star indifferent. Except that he was indifferent to Wars (“The movie’s ‘legs’ will prove as vulner- nothing. To any fan or friend who would ask able as C-3PO’s,” he sniffed), but he quickly be- whether a new movie was “worth seeing,” came a champion of the fantasy-adventure Corliss had a stock, succinct reply: “Everything films of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. is worth seeing.” He meant it. “Not since the glory days of the Walt Disney For Time, he was an indestructible, inex- Productions—40 years and more ago, when haustible resource. He wrote some 2,500 re- Fantasia and Pinocchio and Dumbo first worked views and other articles for the magazine, their seductive magic on moviegoers of every including more than two dozen cover stories. age—has a film so acutely evoked the twin He covered, at various times, theater and televi- senses of everyday wonder and otherworldly sion, wrote about theme parks and Las Vegas awe,” he wrote of Spielberg’s E.T. in a 1982 cover shows, contributed cover stories on topics as story (which, as Corliss was fond of pointing far afield as yoga and Rush Limbaugh. And as out, was bumped from the cover by the out- Time’s longest-serving movie critic (and per- break of the Falklands war). “The movie is a haps the magazine’s most quoted writer of all perfectly poised mixture of sweet comedy and time), he was a perceptive, invaluable guide ten-speed melodrama, of death and resurrec- through 31⁄2 decades of Hollywood films, tion, of a friendship so pure and powerful it stars and trends. seems like an idealized love.” On April 23, following a major stroke that His reviews were authoritative but never in- felled him a week earlier, Richard Corliss, 71, timidating; he had an encyclopedic knowledge died in New York City. He is survived by his of film but never flaunted it. His prose was zest- wife Mary Corliss and his brother Paul Corliss, ful and sparkling—it simply jumped off the of New Jersey. The magazine, along with all page. He loved wordplay. The violent films of lovers of film and great critical writing, will Quentin Tarantino, he once wrote, “allow for have a hard time recovering. no idle bystanders; you either get with the po- As a movie critic, his tastes were populist grom or get out of the way.” Steve Martin, an but eclectic. He was a fan of Chinese kung-fu early exemplar of what he dubbed the “post- movies and Disney animation (he put Finding funny” school of comedy, “filters laugh-a- Nemo on his list of the 100 greatest films of all minute zaniness through Redford good looks: time, along with Jackie Chan’s Drunken goy meets Berle.”

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Withering put-downs were leavened Patient. “The film is, in an old phrase, be- by his wit. “Richard Attenborough’s mov- yond gorgeous,” Corliss wrote. “All year ies,” he said in a review of the director’s we’ve seen mirages of good films. Here is screen version of A Chorus Line, “are like Richard Corliss was a singular the real thing. To transport picturegoers the best-behaved guests at a Swiss embas- and brilliant film writer, to a unique place in the glare of the earth, sy reception; they never offend, never im- cinephile and critic. His love for in the darkness of the heart—this, you press.” After castigating Saturday Night films of all shapes and sizes was realize with a gasp of joy, is what mov- Live stars like John Belushi and Dan Ayk- part of what made him so unique. ies can do.” royd for selling out to do mediocre Holly- He was a true champion of If there was a genre that turned him wood films, he drew a sharp contrast independent film, and most off, it was a certain kind of sentimental, with another SNL alum: “Adam Sandler especially of global cinema. He uplifting crowd pleaser, the sort of film is of the new SNL breed. His Cajun Man, leaves behind an incredible that often wins Oscars. “A confession is in Opera Man and the rest were not varied legacy, but his voice will be order,” he wrote at the outset of his 2000 characters; they were expressions of one missed for generations to come. review of Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot. capacious ego. The issue for him was not Kathryn Bigelow selling but finding a buyer.” There are movies whose feel-good sentiments And yet Corliss was at his best when DIRECTOR, ZERO DARK THIRTY and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know praising—never merely an enthusiast (or • they will become box-office successes or top “enthusi-wooziast,” one of his favorite He had a sense of what you were prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism neologisms), but a keen analyst of the trying to do and what you were my Built-In Hit Detector. I squirm through film’s place in cinematic, cultural and struggling toward, rather than these masterpieces of emotional pornography, American history. “Welcome to the old what you should be doing or not jotting down derisive notes. Oh, if the contriv- nightmare,” he said in his 1987 cover sto- doing. He tended to know what ance is blatant enough, I may get a bit teary; ry on Oliver Stone’s searing Vietnam you were struggling toward and it is, after all, no more difficult for filmmakers film Platoon. judged it accordingly. When I did to make an audience cry by depicting, say, a movie called How Do You Know a child in jeopardy than it is for a lap dancer Welcome back to the war that, just 20 years [2010] that was generally to evoke an erection in her client. At the end ago, turned America schizophrenic ... In Viet- derided, he did a very sweet I have the gloomy certitude that moviegoers nam, Stone suggests, G.I.s re-created the review and talked about what it will love Ghost or Cinema Paradiso or The world back home, with its antagonisms of was after. He always seemed to Full Monty every bit as much as I disliked it. race, region and class. Finding no clear and know that, and judged by how There—I’ve said it. Is everyone alienated? honorable path to victory in the booby-trapped close you got. He called it as he underbrush, some grunts focused their gun- saw it, but he saw more than Surely, no one was. sights on their comrades. The Viet Cong and most people. He grew up in Philadelphia, the son of North Vietnamese army were shadowy fig- James L. Brooks a businessman and a mother who taught ures in this family tragedy; stage center, it was DIRECTOR, AS GOOD AS IT GETS first grade for more than 40 years. His Je- sibling riflery. • suit schooling gave him a grounding in Richard was a champion and strict Catholic values—which started to Pulp Fiction, Tarantino’s breakthrough vocal fan of our films here at Pixar unravel when he began haunting dark- film, “towers over the year’s other movies from Day One. Reading his ened movie theaters. He saw his first film, as majestically as a gang lord at a pre- thoughtful and enthusiastic Cheaper by the Dozen, at age 5 and had an school,” Corliss wrote in 1994. reviews, it was clear they came epiphany at 16, when he saw Bergman’s from a fellow movie lover— The Seventh Seal. “I had grown up think- Tarantino’s movies are smartly intoxicating ing of movies as something to eat pop- which, as filmmakers, is really cocktails of rampage and meditation; they’re corn with,” he said. “Bergman and the in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol the highest kind of praise you can other European directors were the first and a quote from the Old Testament. They receive. It is hard to imagine a ones to open my eyes to film as art.” blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; friendlier gentleman, and it was He graduated from St. Joseph’s College they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall. with great sadness that we in Philadelphia (where he helped edit the And in Pulp Fiction, a multipart tribute to learned of his passing. We hope school newspaper), then moved to New the hard-boiled books and films of American his enthusiasm and support of York City, where he did graduate work in mid-century, he has devised a sprawling, stur- cinematic entertainment will film at Columbia and New York Universi- dy canvas that accommodates the high-octane continue to encourage and inspire ty. He began writing reviews for such pub- and the highbrow. audiences and filmmakers alike. lications as the National Review, SoHo Pete Docter Weekly News and New Times. In 1970, He was drawn to the vigorous, violent DIRECTOR, UP Corliss became the editor of Film Com- films of directors like Tarantino and ment, the movie journal published by the Stone, but he could also respond to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and for more refined pleasures of a tony drama many years served on the selection com- like Anthony Minghella’s The English mittee of the New York Film Festival. In 48 1974 he wrote his first books—Talking Pic- an arcane Time rule, he wasn’t allowed to tures, a critical survey of the major Holly- append the name of two contributing wood screenwriters, and Greta Garbo. (His correspondents to a story he had written. next, a monograph on Stanley Kubrick’s Richard had an intuitive He rewrote the entire story so that the Lolita, came 20 years later, and last year he recognition of the urgency of first letter of each paragraph spelled out published Mom in the Movies, a look at cinema. In the same breath, he the two uncredited reporters’ names. iconic film mothers.) His immersion in could recognize when He was a workaholic who loved writ- the New York film scene also brought him something was fun and ing in the wee hours and pushed dead- his wife Mary, curator of the Film Stills entertaining and when lines to the breaking point—but always Archive at the Museum of Modern Art. something was culturally came through with pristine prose that They married in 1969 and were lifelong significant or groundbreaking. left his editors in awe. He pulled count- partners at screenings, film festivals (reg- He had more colors in the less all-nighters in his office, catching a ulars at Cannes every May) and countless language he used to describe few hours’ sleep on his couch, then get-togethers for film-world friends at what we do than most artists emerging bright-eyed in the morning, their loft in downtown Manhattan. have in their palettes. sometimes with a fresh shirt brought up Corliss joined Time in 1980, dividing to the office by Mary. When, every once the film beat with the formidable Rich- Steven Spielberg in a while, the clutter of books and videos ard Schickel, and the two made a collegial DIRECTOR, LINCOLN that were always piled high in his office team. But Corliss quickly proved himself • suddenly disappeared, that was usually a jack of all trades. He filled in for a time I last saw Richard Corliss Mary too, having come round in the eve- as the magazine’s theater critic (hailing, around Oscar-time. He shared ning to help him clean out. among other shows, the hot new Andrew warm words + fierce As a writer, he was voracious. When Lloyd Webber musical in London, Cats) encouragement. Time.com was in its early stages, Corliss and wrote television reviews (penning Grateful for that. Blessings eyed the new venue like a frontiersman Time’s 1980 cover story on Dallas’ “Who as he journeys ahead. discovering the Louisiana Territory. In shot J.R.?” frenzy). He grabbed any and ev- Ava DuVernay addition to supplying the website with re- ery opportunity to write about his wide- DIRECTOR, SELMA views he couldn’t squeeze into the maga- ranging passions: Cirque du Soleil • zine, he launched a series of 5,000-word spectacles, new rides at Disney World, Sensitive, discerning and considerations of classic pop culture, un- the pop singers of the Brill Building era. articulate voices in film der the title That Old Feeling: evocative, When Bette Midler made her first splash criticism are few and far often definitive essays on figures as di- in movies, Corliss made it abundantly between—the people who spark verse as Richard Rodgers, Jack Paar, Hugh clear in his 1987 cover story that he had something in you when you read Hefner, Marlene Dietrich, S.J. Perelman, been following the Divine One for years: Alistair Cooke, Bettie Page and Dr. Seuss. them for the first time, the ones In one of his last reviews, of the Soviet- At the dawn of her solo career, Bette (rhymes you look forward to checking in era thriller Child 44, he still sounded like with pet, sweat, coquette and martinet but with. The writers who care, who a kid watching his first movie. Director never regret) declared her intention to become enlarge the great ongoing Daniel Espinosa, he said, “seems to be a “legend.” She made good on the boast with a conversation about movies, who aiming for an art-film epic here in what song-and-comedy act that elicited raucous elevate the films and the we may call the classic Soviet style. That laughs and heaving sobs on both sides of the audience. Richard Corliss was means dim, dark, depressing and lonnng. footlights. She was the Callas of Camp, pep- one of these critics. Some two-hour-plus movies are compact pering her program with naughty jokes in the Martin Scorsese enough to resist cutting; Child 44 is a spirit of Mae West and Sophie Tucker. DIRECTOR, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET work that spectators could trim as they Midler’s good-timey raunch made her famous • watch it, scene by scene.” Always judi- as the Divine Miss M, a creature she once de- I am deeply saddened by the cious, he also found the bright spots—a scribed as embodying “everything you were news of Richard’s passing. couple of good minor performances, a afraid your little girl would grow up to be— Richard was more than a film well-staged fight scene, the work of cine- and your little boy.” The image obscured her critic, he was a cultural matographer Oliver Wood, who “gives rightful claim as the most dynamic and poi- ambassador who helped [co-star Noomi] Rapace’s high cheekbones gnant singer-actress of her time: a 5-ft. 1-in. introduce Asian cinema to the a lovely, Rembrandty glow amid the dom- Statue of Libido carrying a torch with a United States. He was also a inant murk.” blue flame.” wonderful person who I was Amid the murk he sometimes had to fortunate enough to call wade through, as well as the master- Time Corliss loved the tradition and a friend. pieces that turned him into an enthusi- format, reveling in the challenge of stuff- wooziast, Corliss’s writing always ing his prose into tight 45-line spaces or Wong Kar-wai glowed. And so did he. ■ churning out a late-breaking obituary in DIRECTOR, CHUNGKING EXPRESS two hours on a Saturday afternoon. His Zoglin is Time’s theater critic and the author virtuosity was uncanny. Once, because of of Hope: Entertainer of the Century time May 11, 2015 49 Home. Cooked. GOODNESS The taste of togetherness.

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the first time photographer gillian laub traveled to Mount Vernon, Ga., in the fall of 2002, it was to document Montgomery County High School’s homecoming celebration. Set off by a lo- cal student’s letter to Spin magazine, Laub found a tradition long divided along racial lines. The school offered two ballots: one for a white home- coming queen and one for her black counterpart. Seven years later, Laub returned to photo- graph another red-letter day in the lives of the town’s teenagers: their high school prom. But in 1 Mount Vernon, 2 ⁄2 hours southeast of Atlanta, the date of the big dance depended on the color of one’s skin. The white prom took place one night, and the black prom the next. Laub’s photographs of the dual proms ran in national magazines, inciting outrage at this vestigial segregation that had somehow sur- vived a decade into the 21st century. The stories embarrassed Mount Vernon, and that shame led to change: homecoming was integrated in 2006, and prom in 2010. When Laub returned yet again, it was to document the school’s first integrated prom. This time she brought a video camera, and she kept returning for the next three years. The story that unfolded—of what happens in the aftermath of belated integration—is the sub- ject of Laub’s new documentary, Southern Rites, which debuts May 18 on HBO.

Change agent “They would still be having segregated proms if she didn’t write that letter,” Laub says of Anna Rich, here with her husband and children, who wrote to Spin magazine in 2000 about Mount Vernon’s proms

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For Laub, a 40-year-old New Yorker, Mount Vernon’s story wasn’t over just because black and white students now dance together in tuxedos and gowns one night a year. “They integrate these proms, and then what?” she tells Time. “What’s really going on in this com- munity? I was on a mission to figure out what that was.” Laub says many of Mount Vernon’s residents had no interest in helping fa- cilitate her mission. Although she had received permission from a committee of parents to photograph the integrated prom, she was escorted off the premises by a police officer shortly after arriving. On another visit, the tires of her rental car were slashed. In the most jarring display of resistance to her presence in the town, the then Montgomery County sheriff confiscated her camera and pulled her screaming from her car for photograph- ing a parade, she recounts. Laub managed to include footage of the assault in her film by popping out the memory card as he tore the camera from her hands. Efforts to run Laub out of town only strengthened her resolve to stay. But the Family ties “Daddy’s story Laub expected to find, of a latter-day family really didn’t Little Rock where integration paved the want to have anything way for social change, wasn’t the one she to do with him because wound up telling. On Jan. 29, 2011, less I’m biracial,” Danielle than a year after the prom was integrated, says of Neesmith. “For a 62-year-old white man named Norman anyone to think he Neesmith shot and killed Justin Patterson, killed Justin because a 22-year-old black man, in Neesmith’s he was black is just home. When Laub next returned to stupid.” Mount Vernon, she found the community rent by yet another incident of racial strife. Next steps A student A Legend Steps In named Keyontae poses an unflinching film about such for Laub on the day of polarizing events might not ordinarily the prom in 2011. It appeal to television producers, but it was was the second year right up the alley of R&B singer John that prom in Mount Legend, who co-wrote the Oscar-winning Vernon was integrated song “Glory” for Ava DuVernay’s civil rights film Selma. When he heard about Laub’s project, he and his partners at Get Lifted Film Co. signed on. He was sold because Patterson’s death in some ways presaged the killings of many young black men in the years that followed. “Someone died, and there was a court case that tested the value of black lives,” Legend tells Time. Patterson’s parents had to ask whether, in Legend’s words, “the family of a young black male being shot will get justice for their son.” It’s the same question that followed the deaths 54 of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice. On the night of the shooting, which took place in a town neighboring Mount Vernon, Patterson and his younger brother Sha’von went to Neesmith’s home for a late-night tryst with the man’s bi- racial great-niece Danielle, then 18, who considered herself Neesmith’s daughter. They were joined by a 14-year-old friend of Danielle’s, who had told the brothers she was older. When Neesmith heard voices, he woke up and grabbed the .22-caliber pistol he kept beside his bed. He found the young people paired off in separate rooms: one couple was smoking marijua- na, the other was having sex. There was a scuffle as the brothers tried to flee, and Neesmith fired four shots. One hit Justin Patterson, who died in Neesmith’s yard. Neesmith called 911 to report that he had shot someone. When the dispatcher asked who, he replied, according to a recording of the call, “It was just a black boy.” He was charged with seven counts, including felony murder. The district attorney told Patterson’s family he had enough to send Neesmith away for life, but on April 26, 2012, Neesmith accepted a plea bargain for reduced charges, which required him to serve 365 days in a de- tention center. The sentence was a blow to Patterson’s family and much of the Pioneers “Everybody community, who likened it to getting should be together. away with murder. But Neesmith, cut off We all go to the school by his own family for raising a biracial together, we grew up child, says that the shooting had nothing together,” says Brooke to do with race. Beecher. She and Qu’an Southern Rites was supposed to be a por- Peeples were the first trait of a town in transition told through interracial couple to go the story of its teenagers. Instead, it to the integrated prom morphed into a complex story of justice in a town where it wasn’t surprising when Loving tribute a black man running for sheriff received A memorial to Justin death threats, and where mixed-race cou- Patterson in his father’s ples are only just beginning to walk down Mount Vernon home. the street without fear of contempt. “The At bottom left is a photo proms were just a symptom of something of his daughter Meiah larger,” Laub says. Over the closing credits of Southern Rites, Legend sings “We Still Believe,” a song he wrote for the film. Although its message is one of hope—“We see the future/ We hold the key”—his optimism is restrained. “I think we still have a long way to go before black lives really matter in the way that they’re supposed to,” he says. “We can get better by exposing these things and trying to shine a light on them, but we still have a long way to go.” ■ 55 The Culture Movies

If anything, Whedon’s writing is Code Hearted. Avengers: Age of Ultron almost too sharp: the characters are so introduces the cloud-based villain finely drawn and verbally quick (they name-check Banksy and Eugene O’Neill) By Lev Grossman that they seem to belong to a different universe than the cartoonish one they find themselves in. They’re smarter than likemanyifnotmostpeople,ihave The A team it, but in order for the plot to get rolling, a favorite Avenger. Mine is the Vision. Familiar faces are joined by Tony Stark has to make the rookie mis- He’s not an A-list Avenger like Thor or newcomers Quicksilver take of trying to create a superpowered Captain America, but he has a ridiculous (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, top artificial intelligence using a gem em- left) and the Scarlet Witch number of superpowers: he’s super- (Elizabeth Olsen, bedded in the staff of Loki, god of evil. strong, he can fly, he can walk through bottom right) You can see Stark actively struggling to walls and shoot beams out of a gem on convince even himself that this is a good his forehead. Also, he’s married to the idea. Likewise, no one ever seems quite Scarlet Witch. sure why the nonsuperpowered, merely The Vision is never going to hold down handy Avengers, Black Widow and his own solo movie—probably because Hawkeye, are in the group at all, since he’s weird-looking and an android—but they’re constantly in danger of being he does make an appearance in Aveng- squashed like bugs. ers: Age of Ultron, the sequel to Marvel’s With Ultron, Whedon has the oppo- vast, Olympian, franchise-melding The site problem: he’s got too much power. Avengers, which made more money than Ultron represents a new trend, the cloud- any other film in history except Titanic based villain. While he has an impressive and Avatar. You can see why: there’s robotic hardware body, his essence is something decadent and supersaturated software, so he can spread anywhere on about these movies, like you almost can’t the Internet more or less instantly and believe the munificence of a Hollywood copy himself at will. Pulverizing his body that would put Iron Man and the Hulk doesn’t do much good: he sheds bodies (and the Vision) in the same movie. the way we shed old iPhones. Like the first one, Avengers: Age of To give the Avengers even a fighting Ultron was written and directed by Joss chance, Whedon has to keep Ultron

Whedon, among whose many virtues is in shackles, like a robotic Harrison MARVEL QUICKSILVER: WIDOW, BLACK HAWKEYE, THOR, MAN, IRON WITCH, SCARLET AMERICA, CAPTAIN HULK, an indelible, infallible touch with charac- Bergeron. He makes Ultron fond of small ter, which is important because in Ultron talk and sentimentally attached to the he has to introduce them at a furious rate. human form—we know what killer In addition to the six regular Avengers— robots look like, and they don’t look like and irregulars like Nick Fury, War Ma- Ultron, they look like Predator drones. chine and the Falcon—we get not only Ultron doesn’t back himself up con- the Vision but also the sorcerous Scarlet scientiously either. He’s not even fully Witch and her twin brother Quicksilver, wireless—several times we see him teth- who has superspeed. Or as one character ered by what look like Ethernet cables. describes them, “He’s fast, she’s weird.” He pulls his punches: never mind trying Then there’s Ultron himself, a super- to hack the world’s nuclear arsenal, why intelligent, borderline indestructible doesn’t he hack the Avengers’ jet? Surely robot created with good intentions that there are a couple of zero-day flaws in the have gone awry—he’s now trying to firmware. Or never mind that—he ought wipe out humanity. Physically Ultron to hack Iron Man’s suit. looks like an animate, damascened A real Ultron would be completely dis- suit of armor; having no nose, he also tributed and systemic, the way real-life bears a family resemblance to Voldemort. supervillains are: climate change, Ebola, As voiced by James Spader, Ultron dis- political inertia, economic inequality. plays a finely honed, mordant sense of You couldn’t smash them with Thor’s humor. Responding to a noble, idealistic hammer—or you could, but it wouldn’t speech, he begins, “I can’t physically do any good. That would be truly scary. throw up in my mouth ...” But not nearly as fun to watch. ■

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I Me Wed. Self-contentment is at Perkins Gilman, Edna St. Vincent Mil- lay, Edith Wharton and Maeve Brennan. the heart of Kate Bolick’s Spinster “The only characteristics all five women By Elliott Holt had in common were a highly ambiva- lent relationship to the institution of marriage, the opportunity to articulate THE AWAKENING this ambivalence, and whiteness,” she According to Bolick, part explains. Gilman published “The Yellow of what brought women Wall-Paper” in 1892; two years later she out of a marriage-and- left her husband and daughter and began children mentality was the typewriter, invented touring as a feminist speaker. Boyce, in 1867 a playwright and culture columnist, proudly declared in an 1898 issue of Vogue that she was a “bachelor girl.” Millay, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923, at the age of 31, remains famous for her single years—and many lovers of both on themselves, was revolu- sexes—in Greenwich Village. Brennan tionary in its time. wrote essays for the New Yorker during One hundred and the 1950s. All of these women were de- twenty-three years later, cades ahead of their respective eras in Kate Bolick’s new book, terms of attitudes toward marital conven- Spinster: Making a Life of tion. Bolick writes, “These charismatic One’s Own, might seem radicals felt like century-old emissaries of quaint. “Whom to marry, my own emotional storm. To break with and when will it happen— the past and invent a new future was a these two questions define rebellion I wanted to get behind.” every woman’s existence,” Perhaps some will find it curious that Bolick writes, in an open- she had to go back in time to find inspi- ing sentence that could ration. After all, there are increasing have been written a cen- numbers of contemporary single women. tury ago. Bolick herself I’m one of them. At 41, I am, like Bolick, suggested that the prem- ambivalent about marriage and happily ise is outdated in the 2011 making a life of my own. Unlike Bolick, story for the Atlantic that however, who describes herself as a “se- inspired this book. As she rial monogamist,” I’ve spent most of my noted then, demographics adult life alone. Friends say I just haven’t are shifting: American women met the right person, but I haven’t in 1892, elizabeth cady stanton are marrying less, marrying older and learned how to hold on to my sense of self delivered a famous speech called “The delaying or forgoing having children. We when I’m part of a couple. I need my soli- Solitude of Self.” At 77, Stanton was retir- are, it seems, doing fine by ourselves. tude; I’m more self-assured by myself. I ing as president of the National Ameri- You might not know it from the recent wrote about my life as a single aunt in the can Woman Suffrage Association. She and hugely popular canon of books that recent anthology Selfish, Shallow, and Self- declared, “No matter how women prefer take on contemporary women’s exis- Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision to lean, to be protected and supported, tence. But Spinster is not a manifesto in Not to Have Kids. I relate to Bolick; I’ve also nor how much men desire to have them the vein of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In. Nor do so, they must make the voyage of life is it straight memoir, like Lena Dunham’s alone.” Equal rights for women were Not That Kind of Girl. It is generational, important, she argued, because essential though, and it’s personal, chronicling Unto herself aloneness is a human condition: “There Bolick’s journey from romantic girl, “We like to is a solitude which each and every one imagining whom she might marry, to pretend that only of us has always carried with him, more “spinster,” which could be hashtagged single people inaccessible than the ice cold mountains, in winking irony. On her way, Bolick are lonely, and more profound than the midnight sea; is inspired by five writers she deems coupledom the the solitude of self.” Stanton’s emphasis “awakeners” (a term she borrows from cure,” writes on women as individuals, who must rely Edith Wharton): Neith Boyce, Charlotte Bolick 58 been inspired by the lives of writers who came before me. In high school, when I fell in love with Millay’s sonnets, I longed SAND THROUGH for her bohemian life in New York. More THE HOURGLASS recently I’ve been drawn to the model of The Folio Society, Mavis Gallant, who eschewed marriage a London publisher, and children for a writer’s life in Paris. is issuing a deluxe (She died last year.) edition of Dune with illustrations by Our desire for role models is not sur- Sam Weber prising: In Spinster, Bolick refers to a fascinating 1986 study by social psycholo- gists Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius that stressed the value of the imagined future in determining identity. Of special importance are “possible selves”—ideas about who we want to be, or are afraid of The Dune Abides it exists 20,000 years in the future, the becoming. Markus observes that women Frank Herbert’s iconic Duniverse (as it’s affectionately known) in particular “are very focused on their feels old, with a rich history, dominated possible selves.” We all need awakeners. work turns 50 by ancient institutions like the Bene Bolick’s Victorian awakeners resisted By Lev Grossman Gesserit, a powerful all-women sect marriage at a time before women ran whose members have supernatural pow- Fortune 500 companies or held seats on in 1957 a college dropout and occa- ers and practice eugenics. The Fremen the Supreme Court. And yet the conven- sional journalist named Frank Herbert are a piercing study of a colonized people tions they defied still exist; single women traveled to Florence, Ore., to write an ar- whose natural resources are viciously over a certain age continue to be stigma- ticle about the Oregon Dunes, a 40-mile exploited by others. tized. In conversation with those late swath of blowing sand that is the largest Herbert had a timely (in the ’60s literary ladies, Bolick finally realizes that stretch of coastal dunes in the U.S. anyway) interest in the power of “the question I’d long posed to myself— But Herbert never finished the article. mind-altering drugs and a remarkable whether to be married or single—is a false Instead he plunged down a years-long prescience of the dangers of genetic mod- binary.” “You’ve never been married?” rabbit hole of research, emerging with ification and artificial intelligence: in the people ask me, with a look that vacillates the manuscript for a massive science- Duniverse all computers were banned between pity and surprise. “But you’re a fiction novel about a desert planet, after a cataclysmic war between humans catch!” others say, as if it’s never occurred inhabited by gigantic sandworms, that and rogue AIs. But his most unique to them that I don’t want to be caught. supplies a precious spice to a vast, in- achievement is the way he integrated In 15th century Europe, “spinsters” sanely complex galactic empire. historical forces like economics and ecol- were girls (usually unmarried) who spun It was a tough sell. Twenty-three pub- ogy into his storytelling. We don’t know thread for a living, Bolick explains. It was lishers turned it down. The book was much about, say, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle- only in colonial America that the term finally released in 1965, by a publisher earth as a functioning economy, but in took on the negative connotation of “old known mostly for car-repair manuals. Dune the fragile desert ecosystem of Arra- maid.” Spinster may not be revelatory, but The novel was of course Dune, and it kis is the keystone of Fremen culture and it is a pleasing, intelligent book. Bolick’s remains a singular achievement in the of the economy of the wider galaxy. minibiographies of her five awakeners history of science fiction and fantasy. Like Tolkien, Herbert had a genius for are captivating, and she is great company Dune is the story of Paul, scion of the vast, Wagnerian set pieces, which were on the page—perhaps she will prove to be Atreides, one of the noble families that a major influence on Star Wars and its an awakener for a new generation. Will rule the galaxy in Herbert’s neo-pseudo- descendants. Unlike Tolkien, Herbert spinster find a new life too? “A wholesale feudal vision of the future. Caught up had a shrewd sense of realpolitik and reclamation of the word spinster is a tall in a war between rival houses, Paul the cynical compromises it entails, order,” Bolick says. “My aim is more mod- is forced to flee to the planet Arrakis, which he passed on to George R.R. Mar- est: to offer it up as shorthand for holding a harsh, waterless world that is the tin, among others. One might wish that on to that in you which is independent source of melange, a mind-expanding, Dune would stop being relevant, but it and self-sufficient, whether you’re single life-lengthening spice. Paul is taken in can’t seem to. Herbert wasn’t a playful or coupled.” It’s a message as appealing as by the native Fremen; eventually he be- writer—Dune is a virtually humorless Stanton’s “solitude of self.” comes their messiah and leads them in a novel—but he was a dab hand with aph- jihad to seize control of the galaxy. orisms. Here’s one of them: “It is not that Holt is the author of the novel You Are One Summarizing the plot of Dune doesn’t power corrupts, but that it is magnetic

BOLICK: WILLY SOMMA of Them do much to convey its intricacy. Though to the corruptible.”

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Free-Range Parenting 2.0 Forget letting the kids roam on their own. +RZDERXWOHWWLQJSDUHQWVRçWKHOHDVKLQVWHDG" last weekend i was getting a little boring. And now that the crime has declined nearly 15% in the past planting pansies in the free-range debate has become so heated, decade, according to the FBI), the number front yard with my 8-year- I’m fairly confident someone will even- of kids suffering from anxiety is skyrock- old son when he requested tually brandish a wooden sword. I can’t eting. Which means I probably shouldn’t permission to run down to wait for that part. laugh off the conversation I had with my the end of our block and back. We live Free-range parenting, you’ll remem- son this morning on the way to school. in a New York City suburb so sleepy that ber, was started accidentally by journal- “Mom,” he announced, “I don’t think I’m the local police blotter rarely features ist Lenore Skenazy in 2008 when she had going to college.” Me: “Why not?” Him: anything of note, although recently there the harebrained idea to let her 9-year-old “Because I haven’t mastered the skill of was an intriguing item about a resident ride the New York City subway alone. sleeping without you.” (Note: He means who had been found brandishing a And he actually lived! But Skenazy was sleeping under the same roof, not in “the wooden sword. Anyway, I know all my immediately crowned “America’s Worst family bed.” That is so 2002. Besides, one neighbors, and my street is quite safe. Mom” (generously removing the rest of my kids is off at college, another sleeps There are exactly two houses between of us from the competition), and she with the air-conditioning on even in the mine and the end of our block, and not launched the blog freerangekids.com. If middle of winter, and our two dogs would a lot of traffic. Or, for that matter, rabid you ask Skenazy and the Meitivs, my son never agree to participate.) dogs, flesh-eating bacteria, zombies or is in grave danger, but not from swing any of the hundreds of other things my sets, running to the end of the block or If I need any more encouragement to imagination would like me to believe taking the subway. cut the apron strings, there is the study will harm my child before bedtime. No, my son is in danger of his over- that came out last month in the Journal protective mother really screwing him of Marriage and Family that shows the Still, I thought for a moment before I up for life. Free-rangers are quick to point amount of time mothers spend with said yes, and then walked out to the side- out that although our society is actually their children between the ages of 3 and walk so I could actually track my son’s safer than it has ever been (child abduc- 11 has no impact on how the kids turn progress down the hill and back. Am I tions are incredibly rare, and violent out academically, behaviorally or emo- overprotective? Most definitely, and more tionally. (After age 11 things get more on that in a minute. But I also know it’s complicated, which luckily is a topic for possible some “concerned citizen” might another time.) So now I’m convinced: if see the little guy running down the street I want Junior to shed his anxieties and by himself and call the cops. Just look at eventually go to college, I need to stop the case of Danielle and Alexander Meitiv watching his every move. In fact, now of Silver Spring, Md., whose decision last that I know my three sons can be happy month to let their two children (ages 10 straight-A students who remember to and 6) play alone in a local park alarmed chew with their mouths closed without a concerned citizen so much that the constant vigilance from yours truly— Meitivs had the police and child protec- well, I am out of here. tive services—not to mention journalists Which is why today I’m announcing everywhere—all over their case. a new movement: Free-Range Parents 2.0. The Meitivs have tangled with con- My new movement is so free-range, in cerned citizens/the police/CPS before, fact, that we’ve removed kids altogether and finger waggers believe this seeming- and replaced them with SoulCycle, Can- ILLUSTRATION BY FOR TIME LUCI GUTIÉRREZ ly reasonable pair have completely lost yon Ranch and shots of tequila. So to my their senses in letting their kids range children: I’ve left a copy of my will in the freely around local play equipment and closet. (It’s that place where clothes get move from point A to point B on their hung up on the curvy things people call own. I’d actually like to thank the Mei- “hangers.”) And officer: When someone tivs, because in reigniting the national reports my son wandering around the conversation on free-range kids, they’ve neighborhood? In the immortal words finally allowed us to stop talking about of Joni Mitchell, if you want me I’ll be vaccination objectors, which frankly was in the bar. ■

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Literary scholar Harold Bloom on So how can writers fight Does it bother you that allega- against that? tions made a decade ago [by life at Yale, his critics and why reading Writers are, in the first place, the writer Naomi Wolf, one of should be ‘elitist’ readers. I tell every writer I’ve Bloom’s former students] may ever known, either they are have overshadowed your work deep readers or they cannot in the public eye? Your new book, The Daemon great hero, once said, “That become real writers. Read I refuse to even use the name Knows, features 12 American which I can gain from another only the best and most chal- of this person. I call her writers touched by genius— is never instruction but only lenging and traditional. And Dracula’s daughter, because only one of whom is a woman. provocation.” reread it. her father was a Dracula Do you anticipate flak? scholar. I have never in my life I don’t even bother anymore. Do you worry that people will Are you familiar with the been indoors with Dracula’s I’m always being denounced. stop reading? websites that provide reviews daughter. When she came to A few years ago, I named all We live in an age of visual by common readers? the door of my house unbid- these people: the pseudo femi- overstimulation. Between the Their effect upon the mind den, my youngest son turned nists, the pseudo Marxists, pernicious screen, whether is not good. They do not her away. Once, I was walking the pseudo power-and gender- television or motion pictures enlarge and make the mind up to campus, and she fell in freaks, as I call them. I call or computers, and all of their more keen and independent. with me and said, “May I walk them all, in capital letters, fallouts like BlackBerrys and Reading is not in that sense a with you, Professor Bloom?” the School of Resentment. that sort of stuff—they de- democratic process. It’s elitist. I said nothing. I always get nasty reviewers. stroy the ability to read well. It has to be elitist. I couldn’t care less. You’ve written one novel. Were you ever tempted to Have your Yale students’ write fiction again? outlooks come to resemble I decided one winter night your critics’ over time? when I reread [The Flight to [Those opinions] were fashion- Lucifer] that no, this will never able, and they’ve left the stu- do. I had to pay the publisher dents. But there are all these not to have a second printing pseudo journalists and pseudo of the paperback. If I could go academics who don’t know around and get rid of all the how to do anything else. surviving copies, I would.

How have your students What, then, qualifies Harold changed more generally? Bloom to be a critic if he’s not We had the ghastly so-called a novelist or poet? Cultural Revolution, and the He is philologically trained Black Panther weekend, and in the history of the lan- suddenly the students went guage, and in Greek and in crazy for a couple of years. But Latin, and the other tongues BLOOM: PETER HAPAK FOR TIME; SHAKESPEARE: GETTY IMAGES IMAGES GETTY SHAKESPEARE: TIME; FOR HAPAK PETER BLOOM: they got over that. The 1970s that contribute to the ap- were a transitional time, but prehension of English and Yale students got to be better American literature, poetry. again in the 1980s, 1990s. And in particular, he has an incredible passion, a fierce Do you look for seminar stu- love for the real splendor of dents who agree with you? the sublime. I am not Tolstoy. My one distinction that I But I have a love for books. would crave as a teacher is They have become part of me. that no two of my students re- —daniel d’addario semble one another, or resem- ble me in any way whatsoever. FOR VIDEO OF OTHER INTERVIEWEES, Ralph Waldo Emerson, my GO TO time.com/10questions

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