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...Texas oilmen flaunted their new wealth: "[O]ne oilman wore a hundred-dollar bill as a bow tie; when asked, he would take it off and throw it in the air, then tie another. Another took to riding a pet lion to meet the mailman; yet another tried in vain to keep penguins in a walk-in freezer. One wrote Pablo Picasso asking to buy ten paintings; he didn't specify color or type, just the size of his wall. A Houston oilman's wife wrote to the Smithsonian to ask whether the Hope Diamond was for sale. Then there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Rich | 2/2/2009 | See Source »

...What They're Buying In Detroit: The Detroit hatmaker who created Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Day church hat has sold out of the style and says it will be at least a month before he can order more fabric for the chapeau, adorned with Swarovski crystals and an enormous bow. Mr. Song's Millinery has received thousands of orders for the $500 handcrafted hat; the company also offers a similar version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...furry, blurry CGI werewolves, quite a few decapitations and a poignant but nifty crisping of one of the vampires when exposed to sunlight. Being set in an earlier day (night), Lycans renounces the whizzing Matrix-like bullets of the first two movies for swords and a heavy-metal bow-and-arrow contraption that brings certain death to just about anyone but Lucian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Underworld 3: Me No Lycan | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

...were very sick and could barely move, you wouldn't be able to find a doctor to make a home visit, but lots of M.D.s will happily travel to your house to temporarily paralyze your facial muscles. Murphy, who wears a bow tie, cuff links and monogrammed sleeves, is an ophthalmologist, but he spends almost no time working on eyes and almost all of it driving from Palm Springs to L.A., youthanizing people for $500 to $600 a session. (Prices could start to come down nationwide if the FDA approves the first Botox rival, Reloxin, possibly as early as April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boytox: Botox for Men | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...along a dusty walkway from the heavily fortified front gate to a large white tent specially set up for the occasion. There, embassy personnel, Iraqi officials in suits, contractors in khakis and soldiers in fatigues milled about, munching on mini quiches and kabobs served by waiters in vests and bow ties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening Day for Enormous New US Embassy in Iraq | 1/5/2009 | See Source »

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