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...thus that I discovered a relentless campaign to bring us the ultimate dating show, "Who Wants to Date a Hooters Girl?", and a frenzied effort to sell Andrew Dice Clay (remember him?) transported back in time to ancient Rome to be the talent booker for "Colosseum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Dogs, Hot Pizzas and Hot Hooters Girls | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

...think there is a politician among us who would fit John Randolph of Roanoke's classic description of Henry Clay?: "A being so brilliant yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profiles in Discouragement | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...decide, for a place that has the cheesy Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone" playing on the television in the bar next to the gift shop. We take another car to a second, higher peak. I find out that Portuguese explorers thought the peaks looked like the clay molds used to press sugar into conical lumps, so they called the place Sugar Loaf; plus they mispronounced the original Indian name. Whatever the Indian name was it had to be better than Sugar Loaf, which sounds like a something that should be located somewhere in Orlando, equidistant from Space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock and Redemption in Rio | 1/11/2001 | See Source »

...AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY Michael Chabon's serious but never somber tribute to the Golden Age of U.S. comic books leaps 600 pages of pop culture and current events in a single bound. The title characters, one a Holocaust escapee, create an imaginary pulp icon while they live through an era of real-life melodramas from the 1930s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY: Michael Chabon's serious but never somber tribute to the golden age of American comic books leaps 600 pages in a single bound. The title characters create an imaginary pulp icon while they live through a vivid era of real-life melodramas from the 1930s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Books 2000 | 12/7/2000 | See Source »

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