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...begins, the organ of a John Rutter requiem eases along at a people-finding-their-pews pace, and three candles glow calmly in the corner. He kneels in the middle of the room. Ignoring him, the dominatrix works at a table laying out a fan, a piece of possum fur, a prickly teaser made of yarn, a hemp rope, a deerskin flogger and kangaroo-hide cat-o'-nine-tails. Finished with her preparations, the mistress turns, walks over to the submissive and grabs the skin at the back of his neck, as a mama cat might lift a kitten. "Stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

MOVE OVER, MARIO Meet Conker. He's a squirrel, he swears a lot, he has a drinking problem, and he's the star of Conker's Bad Fur Day ($70), a new video game for the Nintendo 64. Conker is Nintendo's attempt to shed its wholesome image (think Super Mario Bros.) and pull in some grownup dollars. In one scene Conker defeats his foes by drinking beer and then--cover your eyes, kids--urinating on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Mar. 12, 2001 | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...else in cinema ever imbued rubber and fur with the lifelike feel O'Brien achieved in "King Kong." The only other man who came close was Ray Harryhausen. But as Paul Jensen notes, "[Harryhausen] worked hard to make good, imaginative pictures, but he never worked with a person who could take him further than he might go alone, as Merian C. Cooper did for Willis O'Brien." Harryhausen was the aging animator's apprentice on his last great picture, "Mighty Joe Young," for which O'Brien won the Oscar. One of the lessons he learned was not to do things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...SHOW Best in Show proves it never went out of style FASHION WEEK Sean John causes a furor over fur--a lynx tail wrap with lamb suede sweats TOY FAIR My Pet Monster wears it well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toy, Dog and Tony Shows | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

TRENDS IN FUR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toy, Dog and Tony Shows | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

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