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...movie-star mastery. "Well, Did You Evah," an old Cole Porter tune dusted off for the occasion, is a clever thrust-and-parry duet, and Crosby effortlessly gets in the best jabs. In one bridge he ends the phrase "baba au rhum" with his trademark "bu-bu-bu-bu-bum." When Sinatra sing-snarls, "Don't dig that kind a croonin', chum," Crosby speaks his response with a withering vagueness, "You must be one of the newer fellas." The Crosby-Sinatra animosity is, of course, all banter - the Hope-Crosby rivalry set to bubbly music - and exquisitely realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby | 5/17/2001 | See Source »

...bum steer by its military was also a reminder that China needs better coordination. Last year Beijing established a body similar to the National Security Council to ensure that information gets shared. But in its first test, the new body failed Jiang. "Maybe now the government will speed up this arrangement," says a foreign policy adviser in Beijing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Key Lessons | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...bum steer by its military was also a reminder that China needs better coordination. Last year Beijing established a body similar to the National Security Council to ensure that information gets shared. But in its first test, the new body failed Jiang. "Maybe now the government will speed up this arrangement," says a foreign policy adviser in Beijing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy Plane Finale: Four Key Lessons | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

Hilly Kristal opened the place in '73 and had trouble drawing a crowd. The space had formerly been a typical Bowery bum bar, one of dozens in the neighborhood, opening at 10 in the morning with a few guys from the flophouse standing anxiously at the door. The original hippie concept was to fill it with "Country, BlueGrass, and Blues" (hence the initials appearing on the club's tattered canvas awning) and other American genres that only become exotic when they show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pal Joey | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...Rugby's Bum Rap FOUL PLAY. Finally, and how long we've waited, proof arrives that those friendly pats on the butt between athletes can get completely out of hand. Australian rugby star John Hopoate got arm deep in trouble last week for conduct unbecoming anywhere outside a proctologist's office. Three fellow players complained that Hopoate, during matches, stuck his finger up their backsides. "At first I was very surprised," said accuser Wendell Sailor, who claimed he was "jabbed" by Hopoate last month. "He just stood there and smiled at me." The authorities barred Hopoate from competing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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