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...shopping, and Israelis venture into the Old City for tasty hummus and a puff on a narghile. One recent Friday, a procession of black-coated ultra-Orthodox Jews hurrying through Damascus Gate toward the Western Wall ran into a crowd of prayer-going Arabs. They all stopped to gape at a large, dead shark hanging from a hook outside a butcher's shop. It was one of those fleeting moments when Arabs and Jews forgot their differences and stared in awe at one of God's truly scary creatures. But it doesn't take much--a stabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerusalem Divided | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...Even though the station is now defunct, we can’t help but gape in awe at the ability of radio to unite people in the face of violence and political instability. If anything, this makes us more committed to arguing for locally-centered radio...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson and Evan L. Hanlon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Four Reasons Radio Lives | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...most comfortable enterprise for a woman, but it’s hardly as if men relish exposing their own delicate parts to the perilous January air. Yet for women, taking part is seen as either an outspoken statement of liberation or as providing a special opportunity for voyeurs to gape at bare female anatomy. By contrast, for men, it’s just a bit of a laugh...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri, Lucy M. Caldwell, Lena Chen, Daniel E. Herz-roiphe, Matthew S. Meisel, and Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Notes On Primal Harvard | 1/17/2007 | See Source »

...suitcase, then demands "a smaller room." He runs through a crowded subway car vivaciously hugging wary strangers, and interviews feminists who seem annoyed by his insistence that women's brains are smaller than men's. Of his nude-wrestling encounter with his producer, we will not speak - only gape, in retrospective awe and horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borat Takes Toronto | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

Complicating matters further is Karen O's status as a completely undeniable Jagger-Bowie-Blondie type of rock star. (In a corner of a Manhattan restaurant darker than a crypt, her spiky air makes her subject to countless gape-mouthed stares.) In the nurturing United Nations dynamic the band aspires to, O is the U.S., and when she moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and pushed to hire producer Sam (Squeak E. Clean) Spiegel, the brother of her then boyfriend, director Spike Jonze, Zinner and Chase reluctantly went along. The trio recalls the writing process--which did not go well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Taking On the Naysayers | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

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