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...most vivacious movie musical in ages, and Travolta is a big reason why. Encased in a foam-rubber fat suit, and channeling Blanche DuBois and Miss Piggy, he reveals his feminine side in a way that could have made Stanwyck smile in appreciation. And though Edna hasn't quite the agility of Saturday Night Fever's Tony Manero, Travolta is still a dancing champ at any weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travolta's Latest Comeback | 7/18/2007 | See Source »

...opportunity for office-seeking outsiders. Michael Bloomberg of Massachusetts is an old-fashioned naturalized New Yorker. He had a long and lucrative career on Wall Street before running for mayor in 2001. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, was no more a New Yorker than the average gawker in a foam Statue of Liberty hat when she began her first "listening tour" of the state in 1999. She staged a friendly takeover of the local Democratic Party, running a thorough, well-researched campaign in 2000 and zealously filling constituents' potholes ever since. New York's shrunken fortunes make it unthreatening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a New York State of Mind | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...Angeles police in riot gear swung batons and fired foam-rubber bullets at peaceful demonstrators, working journalists and a small group of agitators in MacArthur Park, Chief William Bratton was basically awaiting a rubber stamp on his application for reappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Bratton Survive May Day? | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...farm in New York was enough to convince William Becker that there was a market for cheap, clean road lodging. In 1962 he and his contractor-partner Paul Greene introduced Motel 6, named for the $6 nightly rate they determined would cover such amenities as coin-operated TVs and foam cups. The chain, which made the pair multimillionaires, now has 880 sites across the U.S. and Canada. Becker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 28, 2007 | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...flannel shirt sleepily rolled up a blue foam mat over the hull of his collapsed tent. It was just after 10 a.m. on a rainy Saturday, as small birds rushed between the cement pillars of Queen's Pier Hong Kong's harbor banged with its constant din of construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Colonial Nostalgia, A Seed of Democracy? | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

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