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...were playing the festival. The Orquestra also played "Eleanor Rigby." That also made sense because of the aforementioned local love affair with all things related to the boys from Liverpool. The video montage that accompanied the medley, however, did not make sense - it was a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, hidden in a riddle and displayed on huge screens on either side of the stage for a few hundred thousand people to try and figure out. The video montage was a rambling, random stream of images - the earth from space, soccer star Pele, AC/DC in concert, Freddie Mercury blowing kisses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...polled a lot. He kept an incredibly sensitive finger - sometimes the finger's name was Dick Morris - pressed lightly to the American pulse. He possessed a survivor's instinct and excellent information as to the state of mind of the followers. His political brain was a sort of Enigma machine that decoded the American mood. But was Clinton a leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Occasion Rise to George W.? | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...leaked and -summarized stories, the better to plan coverage and scare up file video. But like the DMV, the Supreme Court doesn't consider lack of patience on your part an emergency on its part. Without explanation, it delivered to the media a President wrapped in an enigma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down By Law | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...PROOF David Auburn's intriguing mix of memory play and math lesson concerns a professor's daughter who may or may not have solved a famous math enigma. Of the year's two brainy science plays (the other: Copenhagen), this is the one that touches the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...some University officials, that manner, along with the loosely defined position of provost, renders him something of an enigma...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Filling Rudenstine's Shoes | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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