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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...peacock, the next day a feather duster.' PAT QUINN, Illinois governor, on his turn in the spotlight after Illinois legislators voted to oust predecessor Rod Blagojevich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...nation's first African-American Attorney General, Holder, 58, brings a unique perspective to the job. In the 1970s, New Jersey police pulled over his Plymouth Duster to search for weapons. The car contained nothing more than Holder, then a dean's-list undergraduate at Columbia University, and a group of black friends. It impressed on Holder the dangers of using the law as a blunt instrument, a lesson he applied years later in overseeing a racial-profiling settlement with the New Jersey state police. After Columbia Law School, he passed up high-paying jobs for a chance to prosecute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prosecutor | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...Donat, suave fugitive of The 39 Steps, double-talking his way out of a political rally and into the clutches of the man with the missing fingertip. Or Cary Grant doing anything in almost any Hitchcock caper: wooing Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief, dodging a malefic crop duster in North by Northwest. Grant also adorned the genre's apogee, Stanley Donen's Charade, in which the star has five identities and a protective lust for Audrey Hepburn. Neat plotting, chic dialogue, a funny-grotesque supporting cast and enough frissons to send an audience out spooked and happy. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MURDER IN THE WORST DEGREE LEGAL EAGLES Directed by Ivan Reitman Screenplay by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...Chicago at Indiana's expense - like Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North By Northwest, in which Cary Grant gets chased between Chicago and Indianapolis. In Chicago, Cary does suave, urbane things like thwart the bad guys at a high-rent art auction; in Indiana he gets attacked by a crop duster in a scene that makes the rural fields I used to run in look like a benighted dust bowl. Frank Sinatra sang about Chicago's Union Stockyards - but never about the Indianapolis stockyards I worked at in the summers with my grandfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge of the Hoosiers | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...latest Hollywood knuckle-duster trend requires something of a certain scale, which explains the obsession with big cocktail rings decked out with colored stones. Pomellato has tons from which to choose, including the Narciso, available at the Italian jeweler's first U.S. boutique, opening this month in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A to Z | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

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