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...test this, I don clothes one day and head into the textile part of town, which is one of the most lively, entertaining and congested ports on the Mediterranean. Curious as to why everyone else around here is not a naturist, I approach a topless twentysomething woman on the Richelieu Beach who is attired--if that is the correct word--in a microscopic string monokini. Why, I ask her, isn't she over in the naturist colony to "see and be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Tales Of The Naked City | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...complete PC system and doesn't want to buy another piece of furniture," Arbutis says. "And she's leery of spending a lot of money on something she doesn't know or understand." She could try the route to the info superhighway that a lot of curious but cautious seniors are taking: Internet appliances, like the three shown below. Smaller than PCs and easier to use, these devices provide e-mail and basic Web surfing for less money--and without the hassle that is keeping many greatest-generation types offline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Superhighway Late Starters | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...curious charms of Cheney is that he is not, as vice presidential choices sometimes are, a question mark. George W.'s father in 1988 gambled on what he hoped would be an attractive unknown, Dan Quayle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Add It All Up, and Cheney Is a Good Choice | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...title that was rich before/To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of last Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The A.P. has already hit us," said Dave Lambert, 28, who was waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harry's Is Back Again | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...bowels of the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J., waiting for a chance to live up to their own hype. They didn't create all the multimedia fuss, not directly. Nonetheless, their recently released CD White Pony (Maverick) has garnered an enormous amount of buzz, that curious, often unreliable mix of critical adulation, street anticipation and well-orchestrated marketing. White Pony is supposed to be the album that "breaks" Deftones and places it in a league with the hottest hard-rock bands of the day, acts like Limp Bizkit and Creed. In fact, today Deftones is participating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Off to the Races | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

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