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...DEMOCRATS GO, HOW BAD IS JOHN KERRY? Actually, Kerry is quite fun as a candidate. The fact is, they have to keep him hidden. Let's put it this way: the less he's on television, the better his numbers get. He's a charismatic dud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Rush Limbaugh | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...don’t have to believe that each of us is made in the image and likeness of a Creator to accept at least that premise. And it will still be true whether the H-Bomb manages to, um, go off, or simply turns out to be more dud than stud,” he concluded...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: H Bomb Drops, But Not at Doors | 5/26/2004 | See Source »

...Denver's Colorado Ballet; another spiky, witty Ligeti work, Continuum, for the San Francisco Ballet; a fairy-tale treatment of Stravinsky's Firebird for the Boston Ballet. Like Balanchine before him, Wheeldon ventured onto Broadway, creating dances for the 2002 musical Sweet Smell of Success. It was a dud, but it led to a collaboration with Success's star, John Lithgow, who wrote and narrated Wheeldon's nimble, charming setting of Carnival of the Animals for NYCB last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: In the Ear, Out the Foot | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

Depressing bridal planners and tabloid photographers but relieving the rest of the free world, the celebrated celebrity courtship known as Bennifer has at long last come to an end. The ardent red-carpet romance sparked on the 2002 set of their dud Gigli seemed to lose its luster after JENNIFER LOPEZ and BEN AFFLECK called off their September 2003 nuptials amid frenzied media coverage. When Lopez was spied partying with P. Diddy at a Miami nightclub in January, rumors swirled that the exes would reunite. By last week, Lopez's spokesman was confirming that Jen and Ben were done. Bennifer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jen & Ben On The Block | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...Last January, Takei launched Foil, a trend magazine heavy on visuals but eschewing text and advertising. Publishers, editors and distributors told him that a magazine without text would be a dud and that one without advertising would be a terrible business proposition. But Takei believed he could take a purely visual magazine and make it profitable solely from newsstand sales. So far, the magazine has been a huge success. The debut issue initially sold out and then was reprinted. The fourth issue came out at the end of October. "I wanted to break rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heat Detector | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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