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Diddley also gave birth to a rock-'n'-roll persona--the baaaad man. "I walk 47 miles of barbed wire. I use a cobra snake for a necktie," he sang on Who Do You Love. Even though Diddley could sound tough, he was funnier than his peers and more progressive too, employing a series of female musicians at a time when rock was predominantly male. Despite his influence on the Rolling Stones and the Clash, Diddley was rarely credited as one of rock 'n' roll's creators--or paid like one--a fact, he admitted, that made him bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bo Diddley | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...Whipped in Iowa by Huckabee - a former Baptist minister with a parson's demeanor and a cobra's bite - Romney foundered in New Hampshire on a block of granite named McCain. When the Associated Press called the New Hampshire race shortly after the polls closed, McCain's volunteers screamed for joy, but the candidate's mood was more muted. McCain had spent the previous 24 hours superstitiously re-creating the trappings of his smashing New Hampshire win eight years ago - sleeping in the same hotel room, wearing the same emerald green sweater and so on. "I guess more nostalgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Voters' Revenge | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...collectors can't get enough. Enthusiast Mark Meeberg owns 18 custom-made Bourget's, and his collection is valued at more than $1 million. Meeberg, who made his fortune as the owner of a commercial reconstruction business, speaks of the "freedom" he feels while riding. On his $135,000 Cobra, every piece of metal is streamlined to the machine so there is not a straight line on the bike, and that union of form and function takes his mind off everything else. "I have a real high-stress business, but when I get the chance to get on a bike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two-Wheeled Ego Boosters | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...script I think it actually says ‘a Beatles-type mustache’. So, yeah, a check on that one.” And what about the seemingly arbitrary decision of Ahluwalia’s character, The Chief Steward on the Darjeeling Limited, to capture a cobra using a spatula when a bevy of deadlier tools were at his fingertips?“That was in the script,” said Ahluwalia.DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILSWhen so much energy is clearly devoted to details, how, then, can Anderson maintain a sense of the big picture? From early...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEEP FOCUS: The Darjeeling Limited | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...goes to bed. But during his recent surprise visit to al-Asad air base in the middle of Iraq's Anbar province, the President got an altogether different kind of report. In a concrete building sheltered from the 110F (45C) heat outside, Captain Lee Hemming, a Marine Cobra helicopter pilot, stood nervously opposite his Commander in Chief and a phalanx of fellow Marines and described his mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Reality Check in The Desert | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

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