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...alternately on an acoustic guitar, a grand piano and a resonator guitar—with limited live strings accompaniment. He played a good number of selections from his debut solo album Heartbreaker, including “My Winding Wheel,” “Sweet Lil’ Gal (21st/3rd)”, “Call Me On Your Way Back Home” and a rollicking version of “When You’re Young You Get Sad (And You Get High)” on the Dobro. “I just...

Author: By D. ROBERT Okada, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Solo Gold | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...Soon Tracy is the most popular gal on the dance floor. Wait a minute, Amber thinks, that's my job, and squalls, with a lovely petulance, "Everybody, stop liking her!" But everybody can't stop. Link, the divoonest guy in town, feels a strange urge to be with the fat girl. Even Edna is impressed by Tracy's new radiance: "If I'd known you were gonna get on the show, I never woulda said don't do it." Tracy also gets endorsements. At Mr. Pinky's Hefty Hideaway, Mr. P. wants Tracy to be the shop's "exclusive spokesperson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Let Us "Spray" | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

Reese Witherspoon, 26, was a critics' darling (especially in Election) before she earned fame last year in Legally Blonde. Superficially, Sweet Home Alabama is a similar fish-out-of-water scenario. Blonde sent a Beverly Hills fashionista to Harvard Law School; Sweet sends Southern gal Melanie--who had fled to New York City, found success as a designer and landed the mayor's son as her fiance--back home to get a quick divorce from Jake (Josh Lucas), the boy she had loved, wed and left in rancor. But Jake is so steamed that he won't sign the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES: Wishing on a Couple of Stars | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

Physicist Harris Goldberg wants to revolutionize the $1 billion tire-sealant business, but until that goal is realized, he will settle for tennis balls. InMat, Goldberg's seven-employee company in Hillsborough, N.J., regularly ships to Wilson Sporting Goods 55-gal. drums filled with an environmentally safe liquid containing 1-nm-thick sheets of clay. When the material coats the inside of a tennis ball, it traps air far more effectively than standard rubber alone and doubles the life of the ball. Wilson's Double Core, which made its debut more than a year ago, sells at a premium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nanotechnology: Very small Business | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...should go - 1982's Intimate Exchanges famously explored a multitude of different endings. And some trickery is afoot in Damsels (directed by the author). In play No. 1, GamePlan, a disturbing drama of teenage prostitution turns into a hide-the-corpse farce; in play No. 2, FlatSpin, a lonely-gal romance becomes a spy thriller; and in RolePlay a meet-the-parents dinner comedy morphs into a piercing study of social class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farce by the Book | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

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