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...most valuable fixture in the show is 20-year-old Lauren Bacall. [She] has cinema personality to burn, and she burns both ends against an unusually little middle. Her personality is compounded partly of percolated Davis, Garbo, West, Dietrich, Harlow and Glenda Farrell, but more than enough of it is completely new to the screen. She has a javelinlike vitality, a born dancer's eloquence in movement, a fierce female shrewdness and a special sweet-sourness. With these faculties, plus a stone-crushing self-confidence and a trombone voice, she manages to get across the toughest girl a piously regenerate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...Texas. The Janjaweed roam the windswept plains and parts of the central range of jagged, extinct volcanoes on camels and horses or in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns. Bands of 10 or 12 men swoop into a village, shoot the men and boys, rape the women, loot and burn huts and mosques, rip up crops and slaughter or steal livestock. Halima, 30, was working in her family's field in the village of Gadarra when she heard "the voice of guns" last July. "The attackers were on foot and running and shooting. They wanted to kill us," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan: The Tragedy of SUDAN | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...church’s stage, a bandanna-crowned Asian-American bounced to the beat of his electric guitar, crooning, “River flow. Fire Burn. Holy Spirit breathe on me.”  Behind him, a bored-looking man picked at an keyboard, while another beat on a drum. The guitarist started rapping to the beat of the drum. “More than just go to class, more than just study for school grades, more than just get a job—there’s gotta be more...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: scene and heard | 9/30/2004 | See Source »

...This city is a succession of villages, and in each one the atmosphere is that of a different world," he explains. One of his favorite routes is from Waseda University down to the Minowabashi station on the Arakawa tram line. "It's a part of Tokyo that did not burn during World War II, so you can still find the small houses and the covered markets of the past," he explains. "And the people all know each other." Another favorite of his in shitamachi Tokyo, north of the Ikebukuro district, is Sendagi, where traditional shops sell Japanese paper, lacquer ware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo, Japan | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

...have Band-Aids, shaving cream with an old-fashioned brush, homeopathic toothpaste from France, Pour Monsieur by Chanel cologne, a little crystal stone that's made to be used as deodorant or for razor burn. I use Frederic Fekkai gel and glossing cream and a wide-tooth detangler comb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Access: Closet Capers | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

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