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...recounted the story to the Washington Post, "The mayor spoke up and said, 'You go back and tell Mr. Jimmy I'm very unhappy with the garbage piling up on the streets of Baltimore, and I'm not going to stand for it.'" The following Monday, most of the garbagemen were back at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Nancy Pelosi Get The Message? | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

Jordan is a basketball player, nothing more. So, he's getting divorced. Who cares? And gee, it's nice to see that he's got enough cash to live in something that looks like the Mall of America. Fire fighters, police officers, surgeons, garbagemen and anybody else useful to society are more interesting than Jordan and his league of overpaid, ungrateful cronies. JACK REGAN Hamburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 11, 2002 | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...That's where his combination of enlightening and lightening up comes in handy. Yan Ming's balancing act between sage and giddy child, strict shifu and Drunken Master, endears him to everyone from the garbagemen in Astor Place to the frosty gatekeepers at Soho's snootiest watering holes. "I'm in it for my health," says Derrick Waller, a musclebound N.Y.P.D. detective, "and because shifu is mad cool." Rosie Perez and Wesley Snipes take regular lessons. Musicians Bjork and Tricky drop in when they're in town. And the RZA, the mastermind behind rap collective Wu Tang Clan, checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kicking the Habit | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

CHARLIE SHEEN and EMILIO ESTEVEZ's portrayal of garbagemen in the 1990 film Men at Work didn't exactly resonate with audiences. Their latest joint venture, however, should spark more wicked curiosity. The siblings play brothers and porn pioneers Artie and Jim Mitchell for the Showtime film Rated X. Directed by Estevez, the film chronicles the careers of the pair credited with mainstreaming porn with the 1972 film Behind the Green Door. Asked how his brother felt playing a drug- and alcohol-abusing pornography hound, Estevez says, "Charlie had to go down some dark roads. I realized it could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 30, 1999 | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...would gather young and old, warriors and elders, turbulent adolescents, the sleek and paunchy middle-aged, the venerable and wheezing. Lawyers and truckers, body builders, Senators from Oregon, good husbands and wife beaters, Spur Posse mouth breathers, waiters, neurosurgeons, garbagemen and nerds, Tailhookers beastly and Kennedys innumerable, Bly drummers, sweet guys and feel-copping clerics, politicians, pillars of rectitude, forced-entry brutes, girlymen, stockbrokers, philosophers, sales reps, homeless ruins, ex-wife- drained alimoners, gangsta rappers, J. Crew preppies and gunrack bubbas, family-values Bobs and Herbs, whirlpooling cretins, introverts, Fundamentalists, jocks, spazzes, fatboys and hunks and delicate blossoms, biologists, astronauts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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