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...emotional weather. Ginger hears this, but she's not frightened, as she was a few minutes ago; now she's jizzed. The horn section starts bleating like impatient klaxons, modulates seven times, up the whole scale, as the dancers do slide-taps, facing each other, too close for comfort. Something's got to give, and it's the music. The trumpet blasts a kind of sexual cavalry call, to which the two respond with a furious stomp; they've got firecracker feet. Fred takes Ginger in his arms and leads her in eight spins, as delirious as they are precise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: A Stellar Astaire | 6/22/2002 | See Source »

Bowie's clothes have always matched his music: when he was an effete balladeer, he favored flowing dresses; when he sang soul, he wore sharp white shirts. Now he dresses for comfort, not spectacle, lounging around in agnes b. suits like a hip hedge-fund manager on casual Friday. His songwriting feels both off the rack and a bit sloppy. He needs to work harder on old-fashioned pop hooks and chords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Space Slacker | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...firms to refuse to submit to the legislation. British Telecom feels like "piggy-in-the-middle," a company spokesman says, but still must comply with the law. As the debate heats up, users of the hundreds of millions of phones and e-mail accounts across the E.U. may take comfort in their numbers and in the tens of millions of euros that greater surveillance would cost. "Investigators would suffocate in data junk," observes Harald Summa, director of Germany's Electronic Commerce Forum. So, too, the right to privacy could soon be gasping for breath, yet another victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Question of Privacy | 6/16/2002 | See Source »

...have no special words of wisdom to offer at a moment like this,” Summers told the crowd that spilled out onto sidewalks and into Tercentenary Theatre. “I can only offer words of comfort to those who have been affected by these tragic events...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sept. 11 Attacks Stun Harvard, Nation | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...Monday, all of Widener Library’s 3.5 million books resided in air-conditioned comfort...

Author: By Stephanie E. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Time & Again | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

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