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...elder Deak was shot when he stepped out of his office after hearing shots fired at the receptionist. According to a secretary hiding beneath a desk nearby, Lang muttered, "Now you've got yours." The woman was charged with two counts of second-degree murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatal Delusions: A shooting on Wall Street | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...logo fades, the crowd recites the utterly inappropriate prologue to Star Wars: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Poor normal Brad is greeted with the same scatological taunt every time his name is mentioned; poor virginal Janet is "Slut!" Brad cannot slap a desk, or Frank snap his surgical gloves, without the faithful's perfectly timed handclap. The portentous pauses in Rocky cry out for rude interpolations, so that the screen actors at times seem to be responding to directions from the audience. Before Frank can introduce his assistant Magenta, the crowd bleats, "What's your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Land: The Voice of Rocky Horror | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...hiring a fashion writer, cracked, "Most of our readers use this paper for clothing." And you are still terrific. But there's entirely too much harping about your sweet, squeaky-clean personality. One day on the job and people were already making jokes about Care Bears on your desk. A week later you were getting grief for being too polite to a sleazy video auctioneer who was ripping off customers. "What, no hand puppets?" snapped Jo. Enough already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Seems Just Like Old Times:MARY | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Last September the Chinese government celebrated the 20th anniversary of the carving up of Tibet. To observe the occasion, a delegation of Chinese officials flew from Peking to Lhasa armed with gifts of silk, desk clocks and tea. Tibetans do not need desk clocks or tea. They would appreciate having returned to them their rights, their cultural identity and their national leaders. As the eldest brother of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, I can tell you that Tibetans are waiting for these reforms before they will nominate Deng Xiaoping Man of the Year. Thubten Jigme Norbu Bloomington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 27, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...swerves of Ergon's separate seat and back are subtle, like Noguchi stones made soft and purposeful. No earlier American chair had been mounted on a gas-cylinder post, an innovation that finally buffered the shock for sitters who tend to free-fall rather than descend gently into a desk chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Looking Good Is Not Enough | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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