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...predicts, tongue slightly in cheek, that no longer will we have to go to sporting events to experience the thrill in person; blessed with technology, "you'll hop around your living room like a maniac as you actually experience the excruciating pain of Mike Tyson's incisors on your ear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions 21: How We Will Live and Play | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

Chatwin's addiction to embellishment was especially strange because the facts around him were extravagant enough: born into a family of colorful semi-scoundrels, Chatwin had an ear for the obscure and an eye for the rare and the fake that were the envy of the art world. Yet swanning around New York City in dinner jacket, jeans and high-heeled yellow boots, he made people doubt what they should have believed and believe what they should have doubted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prodigal Nomad | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...signs of tampering. Sure enough, she just "happened" to be from the same area of California as her husband, also roller-bladed, and eagerly gushed abou her love for golf (he, suspiciously enough, developed golf courses in the area). Most conspicuous was his lascivious romantic whispering in her ear right after she was crowned winner and the kiss which wasn't the least bit awkward. Did these two know each other...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's in the [K]NOW | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

...Thing, who were literally uncomfortable in their own skins, reluctant superheroes who didn't always feel or act nobly. For his creations, being a superhero was a job; one Spider-Man found Spidey trying unsuccessfully to cash a check in his name (no id). With humor and an ear for the vernacular ("It's clobberin' time!"), Lee put the human in superhuman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Up On The Net! It's...Cyber Comics | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

...full of rhythm, body and the occasional trance-like zephyr. His style, like many other house DJs, is continuous: only one or two segments stood out as pieces with at least a vague beginning and end, while the rest was a heavily overlapped stream distinguishable only to the attentive ear. Fellow DJ superstar and frequent collaborator Sasha calls Digweed "the best DJ on the planet," but if this is true it is more for Digweed's craftsmanship (evinced by his smooth layering) than for brazen originality or nerve. Still, he does have a showy side. For example, he made heavy...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A bedrock of house music: One of the dons of the U.K. house music scene comes to Boston | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

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