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...children's production of Rumpelstiltskin on Griffin's show, before he developed his more raw and racially provocative style. A few years later Griffin took his nephew to see Pryor on stage for the first time, at a theater in Baltimore. He was shocked to hear "the filthiest routine I'd ever heard in my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Loved Merv Griffin | 8/12/2007 | See Source »

Those kinds of pleasant collisions happen a lot when Bono is around. Ashley Judd mixes in the greenroom at a U2 show with Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway scooter and an aborning machine that makes even the filthiest water drinkable. Bill Gates goes to a nightclub, gets called a "bad mother______" by Diddy and understands that it is intended as a compliment. Of course, if Bono were to rely solely on his ability to get powerful people in a room with famous people and then hit them with a speech about moral obligations, he would be little more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Constant Charmer | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...more immediate danger was the threat of secondary infections. The ER was the filthiest I have ever encountered. The floor was littered with medical debris--old bloodstained bandages, syringes, broken vials. The garbage bins had no plastic liners and were spattered with coagulated blood, gobs of spit and other fluids. Sweepers came through every hour with dirty mops and pails of brown disinfectant, but their halfhearted labor was quickly overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of patients and visitors. Nobody paid any attention to the NO SMOKING sign, not even the doctors and nurses. Broken windows allowed dust to enter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in the Life Of a Baghdad ER | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

Visitors to the Taj Mahal all confront the same eternal mystery: How could the people who fashioned the world's most serene monument to love also build on its doorstep one of the ugliest, filthiest and most cacophonous cities in existence? If the heartbroken Shah Jahan's mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal is everything India should be--spiritual, awesome, peaceful--Agra, with its choking traffic, litter-strewed dirt roads and throngs of grotesque beggars is everything it unfortunately still is. "This not what I expected," says Camilla, 22, a psychology student visiting from Sweden. "Not at all. I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: India Unvarnished | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...seven. To enforce it, the government will ask tenants to inform on dirty neighbors. Critics question the attempt to modify behavior through legislation, and many residents plan to ignore the new system altogether. In April, a group of politicians led a scrubdown of some of the city?s filthiest alleys. A week later, however, vermin had retaken many of the alleys?and, presumably, they weren?t ratting on each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Cleans Up | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

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