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Murray, who grew up in a blue-collar family, suggests that his outbursts are generally spurred by a still fiery sense of class resentment and empathy for the underdog. On the set of his new film for Jarmusch, Murray got into a fracas with the location manager when he arrived at a rented house for a scene with child actors and discovered that there was no heat. When he started a fire in the fireplace, the location manager told him to stop. "'Who are you?'" Murray says, whispering, as he recalls the story, in the same intimidating hush he used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Many Faces of Bill | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

...flourishing mills and the four Super Bowl titles of the 1970s are distant memories in western Pennsylvania. But an energetic blue-collar ethos still engulfs the Steelers. At 6 ft. 5 in. and 241 lbs., the quarterback, 22, is built like a linebacker, or millworker, and fits in with the patrons at Jack's. Veteran running back Jerome Bettis took a $3.5 million pay cut so he could finish his career in Pittsburgh. And at a time when teams are bought and sold like ingots and coaches are fired at the drop of a pass, Steelers chairman Dan Rooney--whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man of Steel | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

...JENNINGS, attempting to pose the correct question to the Final Jeopardy answer "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year." His wrong response (correct one: What is H&R Block?) ended his record-breaking 74-game winning streak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim 2004 | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

...instance. Turn it to one side and it's a laughing mouth, to the other and it's a frog's eye. Upside-down, it's a teacup handle. Or take Q. On its side, it's a magnifying glass or a tag on a dog's collar; upside-down it's a pendulum on a clock. This is hands-on entertainment (and education) in which part of the pleasure is physically rotating the book to follow each letter's permutations. For adults, Ernst's geometric designs and striking hues may evoke the color-field experiments of artist Josef Albers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gift Bag of Children's Books | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...Belgian Waffle, but she plays more like her latent blue-collar Pittsburgher...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dalton, Lackner Make Sophomore Splash | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

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