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...titles of their RKO movies changed - "Flying Down to Rio," "The Gay Divorc?e," "Top Hat," "Roberta," "Follow the Fleet," "Swing Time," "Shall We Dance," "Carefree," "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" - but their roles were pretty constant. Fred was nature's nobleman, Ginger the plucky girl who made good by dancing well. It didn't matter that the films' plots were aggressively silly, the dialogue often inane. The musical numbers had a formula too: Fred courting Ginger, pursuing her in song and dance, while she ponders her ethical or emotional reservations to dancing-romancing; he approaches, she retreats...

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

...last jumbo-jet deliveries Continental will take until the second half of 2003, with the remainder put on hold until demand picks up. Bethune does a few touch-and-go landings at Moses Lake to test the new jet, No. 271 in the nation's youngest fleet (average age: 5.2 years), but he gives up the pilot's seat after an air-traffic controller, not knowing who's at the controls, suggests the 767 fly a tighter pattern to accommodate a military C-17 transport and a P-3 surveillance plane passing nearby. "Continental 9990, do you need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Play Hard, Fly Right | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

Gomes made 15 transfers worth a total of $86,440.74 to Fleet and Plymouth Savings Bank accounts. Pomey allegedly made 13 transfers worth a total of $22,549.22 from the Pudding to her account at the Fort Knox Credit Union...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Seniors Accused of Theft | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...vote and assemble and disagree with each other" rings, to Vidal, laughably hollow, since these words are coming from a man who, in Vidal's view, is doing more to damage the freedoms he purports to defend than Osama bin Laden could ever hope to do with a fleet of jumbo jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Books About 9/11 | 6/5/2002 | See Source »

...organisms. But last week the European Commission made proposals to tackle an equally serious yet far more contentious issue: the decades of overfishing that have decimated fish stocks in European waters. The Commission's plan, put forward by fisheries Commissioner Franz Fischler, calls for dramatic cuts in commercial fishing fleets and the diversion of some $430 million that's currently used to subsidize the modernization of the E.U. fishing fleet into retraining programs to help fishermen find other jobs. All European Union countries would be affected, but those with the biggest fishing industries would be hit hardest. Even countries that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Stinks | 6/2/2002 | See Source »

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