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...beyond being embarrassed by driving a battered yellow Yugo that strangers mistake for a taxi or carrying Handi Wipes in his pocket. They also like the same music, which can unite the most disparate souls. The big problem is his devotion to Tris, which baffles Norah ("I could floss with that girl"). That's Nick's cage; he's a bit too at home in his misery. He is who he is, until Norah helps him be someone better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist: Enchanted Evening | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...army of convention delegates. A story on Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal reminds us that plenty of Clinton backers are not yet happy campers. They want to nominate their candidate as the world watches and cast 1,600 votes as a powerful reminder that Obama's victory was floss-thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Veep Picks: What's the Rush? | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

...Cotton Candy At Seattle's Vessel, Jaime Boudreau combines orange-infused candy floss and spirits for a new twist on the old-fashioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cocktail Class in Molecular Mixology | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...death camps, Boulder's red cinder-block multi-level complex with estate-quality wrought-iron fencing is located in a neighborhood of office parks, and resembles, inside, an upscale daycare center. The gift shop sells hemp dog collars, Outward Hound folding travel bowls, chews that act as doggy dental floss, and Santa-themed holiday pet bandanas. There's a vet clinic and an obedience school on site. In the brightly lit kennels, where a one-year-old fluffy little Bichon Frise mix might sit sweetly alongside an adorable stuffed gray monkey on a pink blanket in a two-room suite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Personality Test for Pets | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...leading figures in the Outsider Art, or self-taught, movement; in Montgomery, Ala. Tolliver began painting compulsively in the 1960s after an accident at a furniture factory left his legs crushed. His lyrical pieces, which he made with house paint and hung in his front yard using dental floss, first drew curious buyers, then eager galleries. The paintings--of bold, bright, sometimes grotesque women, birds, flowers, snakes and trees--are now in the permanent collections of major institutions, including the Smithsonian and New York City's American Folk Art Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 13, 2006 | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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