20世纪之最

浏览《时代》周刊网站，本想找连岳所介绍的“60年代英雄列传”，却找到了杂志1999年12月31日一篇The Best Of The Century的文章，评出了20世纪各个方面之最，包括有最佳小说《尤利西斯》、最佳非虚构书籍《古拉格群岛》、最佳诗歌《荒原》、最佳电影《大国民》、最流行时尚列维斯牛仔裤，等等。
原文出处：The Best Of The Century

Best Children's Book Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (1952)

The most lovable spider in literature befriends a hapless barnyard pig named Wilbur and launches a campaign to save him from becoming someone's meal. The webs Charlotte weaves are tangled and enchanting. RUNNERS-UP The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Best TV Show The Simpsons, created by Matt Groening (1989- )

Dazzlingly intelligent and unapologetically vulgar, the Simpsons have surpassed the humor, topicality and, yes, humanity of past TV greats. RUNNERS-UP The Mary Tyler Moore Show; The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

Best Dance The Four Temperaments by George Balanchine (1946)

No plot, no set, no Look-Ma-I'm-a-swan costumes--just a stageful of virtuoso dancers who hurtle through angular steps and abstract poses that evoke a limitless universe of emotions. RUNNERS-UP Esplanade by Paul Taylor; Jardin aux Lilas by Antony Tudor

Best Film Citizen Kane, directed by and starring Orson Welles (1941)

Its power--a compound of rebel cheekiness, stylistic innovation and a tragicomic vision of media power--has never waned. It remains a work that seduces the young and inspires the old with thoughts of what the medium can achieve. RUNNERS-UP Day for Night by Francois Truffaut; Chinatown by Roman Polanski

Best Novel Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

Exhaustively portraying the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, it has comic exuberance, encyclopedic inclusiveness and a virtuoso display of diverse narrative styles that make most subsequent novels look like spin-offs. RUNNERS-UP One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Best Nonfiction Book The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974)

This scalding and historic expose of the vast Soviet prison network set up for dissidents made international headlines when it first appeared in the West. It also got its author kicked out of his homeland. RUNNERS-UP The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; The Double Helix by James Watson

Best Opera Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten (1945)

This tale of a troubled fisherman's fatal encounter with the bigoted residents of his seaside village is told with emotion and all-encompassing humanity by Britain's foremost composer. RUNNERS-UP Wozzeck by Alban Berg; Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini

Best Comedy Routine "Who's on First?" by Abbott and Costello (1938)

It's such a simple premise, and Abbott and Costello drive it about 20 ft. into the ground, but "Who's on First?" is not only the century's most famous comedy bit; it's also the best. It's absurdism mixed with the easy pleasure of confusion, and Bud Abbott plays the perfect cool logician to Lou Costello's frustrated inquisitor in this Beckettian farce. RUNNERS-UP "Dead Parrot," Monty Python; "Rope Tricks," Will Rogers

Best Song Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday (1939)

In this sad, shadowy song about lynching in the South, history's greatest jazz singer comes to terms with history itself. RUNNERS-UP Corcovado by Antonio C. Jobim; A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan


Best Musical Carousel by Rodgers and Hammerstein (1945) They set the standards for the 20th century musical, and this show features their most beautiful score and the most skillful and affecting example of their musical storytelling. RUNNERS-UP Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling; Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice

Best Design The Eames molded plywood chair, designed by Charles Eames (1946)

Eames took technology created to meet a wartime need (for splints) and used it to make something elegant, light and comfortable. Much copied but never bettered. RUNNERS-UP The S-1 steam locomotive by Raymond Loewy; the Swatch watch

Best Play Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello (1921)

It crystallizes the century's chief concerns of life and art: man's existential predicament, the line between illusion and reality. And it's more fun than Waiting for Godot. RUNNERS-UP Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw; Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

Best Classical Composition Symphony of Psalms

by Igor Stravinsky (1930) This reaffirmation of the glory of God begins in astringent lamentation and ends in radiant certitude. RUNNERS-UP String Quartet in F Major by Maurice Ravel; Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland

Best Poem The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922)

Filled with post-World War I disillusionment and despair, this allusive, fragmented epic became a touchstone of modern sensibility, and its haunting, haunted language sang the passing of old certainties in a century adrift. RUNNERS-UP The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats; Home Burial by Robert Frost

Best Painting The Red Studio by Henri Matisse (1911)

Matisse's great poem to the art of painting shows how, in a space brimming with red and punctuated by renderings of his own pictures, the visual becomes the lord of all the senses. RUNNERS-UP Still-Life with Chair Caning by Pablo Picasso; Dog Barking at the Moon by Joan Miro

Best Sculpture Bird in Space by Constantin Brancusi (this version c. 1941)

This totemic reduction of nature--the streamlining of a bird's body, the swish of its flight--was a prediction of the technological world to come in the second half of the century. RUNNERS-UP Guitar by Pablo Picasso; The Chariot by Alberto Giacometti

Best Building The chapel at Ronchamp, France by Le Corbusier (1955)

How do you create space for sacred ritual in a secular age? It's hard to do better than this erratically shaped church. RUNNERS-UP The Seagram Building by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Album Exodus by Bob Marley & the Wailers (1977)

Every song is a classic, from the messages of love to the anthems of revolution. But more than that, the album is a political and cultural nexus, drawing inspiration from the Third World and then giving voice to it the world over. RUNNERS-UP Kind of Blue by Miles Davis; Are You Experienced? by Jimi Hendrix

Best Photograph Place de l'Europe, Paris by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1932)

Cartier-Bresson demonstrated the strange magic in moments in which nothing much happens but all sorts of things are revealed. RUNNERS-UP Identifying the Dead, Russian Front by Dmitri Baltermants; Wall Street by Paul Strand

Best Fashion Levi's 501 jeans by Levi Strauss & Co. (1960)

Although the precursors got their patented copper rivets in 1873, 501s belong squarely in the 20th century. Worn by everyone from Presidents to rock stars, they can be dressed up or casual, hardworking or sexy. RUNNERS-UP The miniskirt; Coco Chanel's little black dress

我快要疯了

怎么这个博客又可以登陆访问了？不要这样摧残人了。
另：今天到了新单位上班，一记。

结婚满月纪念

就在一个月前的今天，俺结婚了。
由于可能的工作调动，一个月来忙于处理手头剩下的工作，网已经很少上了。加上google blogger被封，对于博客我已有点提不起热情了。原来的想法是可以在博客上告诉别人一些我自己认为有意思的事情，至于我这样一个乏善可称的人，自己都懒得去想自己那点鸡毛蒜皮的小事，也就没什么可以公诸于众的。
只是，一个月前，当我告诉老婆我在网上贴了我们登记的照片的时候，她立刻上网想去看看我说了些什么，无奈我们伟大的防火长城已经把我的博客给封了。然而老婆为了探个究竟，硬是通过搜索引擎，一小段一小段地搜索这篇博客的文字来读，遗憾的是，照片她始终看不到。她叮嘱我一定要在博客上将她这种伟大的行为记录下来。今天是我们结婚的期月纪念，我也找到了潜入博客后台的方法，那么就敲上这段文字作为纪念吧。

“屠杀”皆因有罗马

很多次在网上看到足球的电视转播表，几乎每个星期都有罗马的比赛转播，遗憾的是那都是在地方台，我们伟大的cctv不是国米就是AC，或者干脆不转。这对于一个罗马球迷来说是怎样的其痒难当！

昨 天试着在网上搜索解决办法，原来还有在网上看地方体育台视频直播这一路数，于是锁定上海体育，10点准时开战。伟大的罗马，他们开始了对卡坦尼亚无情的屠 杀。说实在的，当比分达到3：0之后，比赛已经味同嚼蜡，卡队完全放弃，罗马也已经意兴阑珊，换成其他球队，我早会洗洗睡了。

大概是03—04赛季吧，罗马在打锡耶那的时候，也弄出个6比0来，之前一场他们4比0让不可一世的尤文图斯颜面扫地。

激情，无聊的生活需要激情来打破。

所以，俺也喜欢黄健翔。

伟大的黄健翔万岁，他继承了一小部分不安分的中国人的伟大的历史传统。

伟大的罗马万岁，她也继承了他们狂野不羁的伟大的历史传统。