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...Broadway show--in a lovely vest-pocket production by George C. Wolfe--begins in a basement laundry room where Caroline (Tonya Pinkins) is trudging between the washing machine and the dryer to the accompaniment of a transistor radio. The blend of naturalism and lyricism is established right away: all the appliances are embodied by human beings (a Supremes-style trio, for example, provides the voice of the radio). The anthropomorphic devices don't stop there. The moon appears with an evening gown--bedecked soprano inside. The news of President Kennedy's assassination is announced by a blues-singing city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Not Just Pocket Change | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

George Zimmer bounces briskly into the conference hall of a swank California resort tucked among wooded hills with a view of Monterey Bay. The stage is decorated with headless mannequins dressed in suits and sports shirts. There's a clothes dryer, with which an executive has just demonstrated the wrinkle-free quality of a new line of shirts. But the main act is Zimmer, founder and CEO of the Men's Wearhouse, also known as the bearded pitchman with the cornball delivery who ends every commercial for his stores with his signature line, "I guarantee it!," pronounced like a carnival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Managing: Profiting From Fun | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

Unable to let go of the fan idea, my husband and I seriously contemplated buying a hair dryer with a cool setting and rigging it into a fan. We opted for two bottles of glass cleaner instead; we filled them with cold water and madly doused each other. At night this strategy yielded a good 20 seconds of cool, during which we hoped to God to fall asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Parisians Perspire? | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

...closes, and the toilet flushes). It even knows what has gone on in between: for liquid-only waste, Neorest uses 1.2 gal. of water to flush and for other episodes, 1.6 gal. The conservation-minded toilet also includes a heated seat, an air deodorizer and a warm-air dryer, among other features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Briefing: Aug 25, 2003 | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

...challenges of raising eight children on less than half the $80,000 salary her Army reservist husband Randy was earning as a lineman for Sprint. He left three months ago for what could be two years with the 350th Civil Affairs Command in Hungary. Michelle fixed the dryer herself to save the service charge, but then the car broke down. Their savings account has shrunk to $175, and groceries alone cost $800 a month. When Randy asks how things are going, Michelle tries to change the subject. "I hate to tell my husband when he calls how bad things really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Call of Duty | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

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