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...city editor on a daily tabloid, he did want Larry to deliver copy. Many people who knew Rodgers said he had the soul of a banker. He went to work, wrote a gorgeous, chromatically sophisticated tune, went home (or to an upper room in Sardi's). He was the fastest composer in the East; as Noel Coward said, mixing envy and awe, "The man positively pees melody." Speed was essential in the mid-20s, when Dick and Larry finally got cooking and, in 1926, produced 60 songs for six shows. But Rodgers didn't lose anything off his fast ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Heart to Hart | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...most striking visual representation of the Gap is the photograph of Secretariat crossing the finish line at the Belmont Stakes, 31(!) lengths ahead of the next horse. You can barely see the others--the fastest horses in the world, mind you--in the distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatness Gap | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...Coppertone Endless Summer $12. The fastest, because it's two creams that you blend before applying. "Dark" tone is strictly for that Palm Beach divorce look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Batch Test: Tan Lines | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...time for the final, fastest dance chorus. Lightning and a thunderclap cue a quick change in the emotional weather. Ginger hears this, but she's not frightened, as she was a few minutes ago; now she's jizzed. The horn section starts bleating like impatient klaxons, modulates seven times, up the whole scale, as the dancers do slide-taps, facing each other, too close for comfort. Something's got to give, and it's the music. The trumpet blasts a kind of sexual cavalry call, to which the two respond with a furious stomp; they've got firecracker feet. Fred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: A Stellar Astaire | 6/22/2002 | See Source »

Tomey said their chapter is the fastest growing chapter of the national organization, and added that they expect to be recognized as an official SAE chapter by the fall...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Social Options on the Rise | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

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