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...modeling. Doom addict Trent Reznor, of the rock band Nine Inch Nails, has created Quake's heavy-metal sound effects. The enhancements make Quake much more realistic than Doom--and yes, bloodier. (Kids: heads fly off and roll around on the ground! Zombies actually pull chunks of flesh out of their hides and fling them at you, then explode like red water balloons when you shoot them with your nine-inch nail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WIZARDS OF ID | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...routinely referred to as "the most powerful man in Hollywood"--built up the town's most imposing list of talent. His masterful, softly menacing style, along with his courtship of nontraditional clients like Coca-Cola and Credit Lyonnais, transformed the old stereotype of the talent agent as a hustling flesh peddler into that of a sleek ninja visionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE 10% DISSOLUTION | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...love square. The Guardian (the convent's general overseer), Baltar, falls in love with Helene and tries to set up the professor with the librarian, Piedade, in order to win Helene's affections for himself. Piedade, meanwhile, is a beautiful, porcelain-like young woman, of the purest mind and flesh; she often quotes passages of Faust in the original German and she loves Baltar with a fervent--and slightly incestuous--daughterly respect. Helene pretends to desire Baltar, but she'd rather get a little attention from her husband, who values his research more than anything, except, perhaps, the chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'The Convent' Is Mmm-Mmm Goethe! | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...Make mine rare! People who chow down on meat that's cooked medium to well done appear more likely to develop STOMACH CANCER than those who favor rarer flesh. Reason: carcinogenic chemicals can form when animal protein is heated to high temperatures for long periods of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 6, 1996 | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...best thighs. In one sense, it's a nice change of pace; now the men have their turn at being Miss America. Now they too know what it is like to be judged not on the content of their character but the firmness of their flesh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIRMNESS OF THEIR FLESH | 4/6/1996 | See Source »

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