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...taken part in the shoot for the past four years, says Phil Ovuka, director of creative media services at Geico. Buffett played a DJ one year and a hobo another year. This year, Ovuka wanted to push the envelope a little further. "We thought, What's the most ridiculous getup we could think up for Warren - and thought, Nah, we can't do that," says Ovuka. (See pictures of Guns N' Roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Buffett Plays a Guns N' Roses Rock Star | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...those people who places too much importance on costumes. But Daniel Wende of Germany, you cannot bejewel a gladiator outfit. And Roman Talan of Ukraine, no one wants to see your underpants through your white getup. Perhaps it's no coincidence that their pairs finished at the bottom of the 20-team draw. When you watch a skating event closely, it's fun to pinpoint the differences between the best and worst competitors - besides the tendency of low-scoring athletes to skate with their asses. For the pairs at the back of the pack, their spinning is hardly synchronized. Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Watching Figure Skating, Judge for Yourself | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

There's a photograph of Cameron with Boris Johnson, London's patrician mayor, and other Bullingdon members in their toffy getup, taken a year before the Cliveden trip and widely reprinted in the British press last year. It has been withdrawn from circulation. Old friends stick together, and none more so than Britons bonded through the shared experiences of class and education. One sign of the narrowness of Cameron's natural world: his wife Samantha, although the daughter of a baronet, is widely credited with being her husband's conduit to a more plural society. She's the creative director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Cameron: UK's Next Leader? | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...with suitable costume changes, that display her personal range as well as the gamut of ballet's dramatic postures. She does the classic ballerina turn, the rehearsal-costume pas de deux, the androgynous duet, the music-hall floozy and, best of all, the woman-as-Mephisto, in a sexy getup that is mostly tights. She runs her career with great savvy. When things looked dull for a stretch in Paris last winter, she free-lanced a string of guest appearances, learning Giselle on her own. She lives with a dancer colleague, Manuel Legris. Ballet, she concedes, has become all absorbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THREE WHO CAPTURE THE MAGIC New ballerinas from Italy, Russia and France are revelations | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...shield the skin from UV sun rays have become hot commodities this summer, according to Nice scuba-shop owner Stéphane Pinier, ever since people discovered that the garments also block jellyfish tentacles. Of course, choosing that method of avoiding the sting can itself be painful: the ungainly getup costs nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Jellyfish Attack | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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