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...gang are ready for the chase. With a flourish, Fai slaps on a cool, floppy plaid racing cap, like the ones worn by Cuban jazz trumpeters. It's a bold hat, but it's a bold night and the glint in Fai's gaze makes you think his magnets are spinning full tilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Night Of the Hunter | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...obtain Vicodin and other painkillers, you needn't slink off to the rough side of town for a date with your dealer--although you could. Last month Ventura County, Calif., issued a grand jury indictment alleging that the Hell's Angels used a youth gang called the Outfit to sell more than 700,000 Valium and Vicodin tablets throughout the region--all supplied, according to the charge, by an Air Force clinic employee. But you can also ask your doctor for the pills, and he may not scrutinize too carefully the validity of your request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Feeling No Pain? | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

What sweet irony. Even as the new economy-loaded NASDAQ index continued its death spiral last week, investors gobbled up shares of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts as if cholesterol were a newfound health food. And while the tech gang was frantically dialing down its earnings estimates, Krispy Kreme announced profits that easily beat the forecasts.The stock soared to $79.19, up $6.68 in an otherwise dreadful week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kreme Rises: Hot Stock Tip: Dump Tech, Buy Doughnuts | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Pope has no pity for slow learners. By the time you read the first page, the main character, known as "S," has already stolen the volatile titular liquid from a criminal gang and begun to boil some of it up so he can drip it into his ear for its psychotropic properties. Thereafter it becomes a double cat-and-mouse tale as the gang hunts down "S" while "S" gets hired by an art collector to find a missing artist who can cast the liquid into a sculpture. Meanwhile, nobody really knows where this liquid comes from or what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Put That Stuff in Your Ear! | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...Timothy Hutton et al singing "Sweet Caroline" in the bar (Beautiful Girls); the tearful recollection of "Rolling With the Homies" in Clueless; Jamie Bell dancing through the streets of Durham as "A Town Called Malice" plays; Dustin Hoffman whistling "Mrs. Robinson"(!) to himself in The Graduate; Winona Ryder and gang dancing to "My Sharona" in the gas-station convenience store (Reality Bites); John Cusack holding up the boombox (of course); Michelle Pfeiffer singing "Making Whoopee" on the piano; seasons changing as Hugh Grant walks down the Portobello Road to "Ain't No Sunshine" (Notting Hill); the bittersweet use of "Raindrops...

Author: By Daryl Sng, | Title: In The Mix | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

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