Intelligent Life | Contents, Spring 2008

11 FROM THE EDITOR

13 CONTRIBUTORS

 

14 THIS SEASON | A SELECTIVE GUIDE

24 INTELLIGENCE | Hedonism with its head on

24 THINKING | A lot of learning is a dangerous thing

26 SURVEY | The vital statistics of an everyday European

28 GREEN | Is climate change terminally unfunny?

30 DESIGN | Speakers that don't just look good, but sound good too

32 ESPIONAGE | How to spot a tail--and lose it

34 LANDSCAPES | The secret of matchless mowing

36 WINE | Our wine-list inspector calls on Pizza Express

37 ZEITGEIST | Where to go to break free from your BlackBerry

40 GIVING | The financiers' dilemma

40 I WAS THERE | An anaesthetist remembers the first IVF birth

42 SPORT | Behind every Formula One driver...is a driven father

43 GADGETS | The mobile phone as movie camera

44 CARS | How to stop a Ferrari in four seconds

46 FOOD | Chocolates that surpass the Swiss and banish the Belgians
RePasts: Shakespeare's warden pie

 

48 FLAIR | STYLE WITH SUBSTANCE

48 SHOOT | Eight of the best: couture that matters

58 FASHION | Why a woman in a tuxedo is like power in a keg, by Tim Banks

60 Dress Sense: Phillip Treacy, master milliner, on the zest of bright colours

62 SHOPPING | Francesca Martin on what gets us through the department-store door

64 Global Trading: five flea markets to rummage through

65 Insider Trading: training shoes

67 One perfect ... balm, chosen by Mary Fellowes

 

FEATURES

69 COVER STORY | Martin Sheen
He is probably the most presidential person in America--yet his political views often get him arrested. He talks to David Thomson

75 When robots get cuddly
In Japan, robots haven't just become part of the furniture, they are trusted friends. Dominic Ziegler does his best to bond with them

84 The new rehab: rhetoric
Addicts on Tyneside are going off the sreet and into the university depbating chamber. Maureen Cleave joins them

88 PHOTO ESSAY | Dreamscapes
Napoleon's camp-bed, a bordello, an enormous plastic ball and an 18th century Bernais snug. Thierry Bout finds beds that are almost too special to sleep in

100 Larry Gagosian and the art of the deal
Before the artist Glenn Brown joined Larry Gagosian, his top price was 46,000; in June a painting made 969,000. Sarah Douglas profiles the man who changed the art world

108 Hell and high water
What will you do when the world ends? Andrew Miller tries to formulate a plan

 

114 CULTURE | SMART ARTS

114 SPECIAL | An introduction of where to find the best critics: a guide by 24 writers and editors. See also book critics, film critics, television, pop culture and theatre critics, dance, art and classical music critics, rock critics

120 MUSIC | Russel Mael explains why Sparks are performing all 21 of their albums live

122CINEMA | The visual CV: Ann Boleyn, from Merle Oberon to Natalie Portman

124 THEATRE | Trevor Nunn and the essence of the musical, by Robert Butler

126 MUSIC | The Playlist: Jasper Rees picks classical tunes with a romantic tinge

 

128 PLACES | A WORLD AWAY

128 FEATURE | Mariachi music--a celebration of machismo, womanising and tequilla

136 OUT THERE | William Mackesy's ten best treks, from Tibet to Arizona

138 BEING THERE | Living in Marrakech

142 SEVEN WONDERS | Carlos Ghosn, boss of Renault and Nissan, on the places he loves

144 SNAPSHOT | Good Friday in Quito

146 THE MISSION | Will Smith makes a souffle

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