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...finish of last year's comedy High Fidelity arrives when the snarling, hyperactive record-store clerk played by comic actor Jack Black delivers a soulful rendition of the Marvin Gaye song Let's Get it On. He can sing!, the viewer gasps. The pleasures of Tenacious D (Epic), the self-titled debut from a rock duo composed of Black and fellow actor/singer/guitarist Kyle Gass, flow from a similar revelation: Black and Gass set themselves up as buffoons with titles like Karate Schnitzel, then proceed to defy expectations with precise guitars, polished vocal harmonies and slamming backup musicians. Their tunes, informed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tenacious D | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...stores on the Continent. Now the firm says it may try to find a buyer for its French operations as a last-ditch attempt to save those positions. Yolaine Belamire, 49, has worked since 1979 at the Marks & Spencer flagship store in Paris, starting out as a clerk and working her way up to manager, where she earned $1,770 a month. "We thought the cutbacks would affect smaller stores in the provinces," Belamire says. "When it was announced that it was all the stores, it was really a shock." Employees filed a lawsuit against Marks & Spencer, claiming that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood, Sweat, Toil and Tears | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...were united by the shared frustrations of doing business among the corruption and cronyism of Laos. One expat, on the condition of anonymity, says: "If you want to get anything achieved here, you have to pay everyone involved. If you want a phone line installed, you bribe the clerk, the manager and the lineman. And even then it probably won't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dream in Tatters | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...Update: I think the male clerk in this Internet café just grabbed the female clerk’s ass. She is making some sort of squealing noise. I am going to get a better look...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: POSTCARD FROM OAXACA: The Report From Mexico | 7/6/2001 | See Source »

...much is known about Li Hongzhi, 48, the man who created Falun Gong in 1992. He worked as a grain clerk in northeast China's Liaoning province. He played trumpet in a troupe run by the forestry police in neighboring Jilin. And then he wrote a very odd book that affected millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiritual Society or Evil Cult? | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

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