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...chew?or afford, for that matter. The Administration has created a royal mess of things that I'm sure was not anticipated. Maybe Bush will be thankful to exit office at the end of one term, leaving the next President with a horribly daunting task: trying to glue the broken world back together. Lynelle Grobler Pretoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...Company right here in Cambridge, which also makes embalmers’ fluid, plastic eyeball covers, and the wires used to keep people’s jaws together. Chauvière admits that funeral makeup doesn’t offer a lot of cosmetic options. “Traditionally, we glue the lips together,” he says, and in terms of lipstick colors, “you pretty much have the options of beige or rose...

Author: By V.e. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I Paint Dead People | 10/23/2003 | See Source »

...would want that shot because of what it could mean if you missed it,” Robinson said. “But they wanted the ball, they wanted the shot. They may not have been the most talented basketball players, but they were the toughest. They were the glue and the heart of the team...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Twin Brothers Making A Name for Themselves | 10/10/2003 | See Source »

...haven for the porn industry. Simultaneously, sleazy Clint Smoker, who writes a misogynistic column called Yellow Dog for a Fleet Street tabloid of dazzling tastelessness, is hurtling across several plotlines toward a romantic rendezvous with violent potential. What holds all this together? Alas, not much more than glue and stitching. Yellow Dog, sad to say, is a novelist's breakfast. Chapters on California's porn industry read as if Amis were recycling his 2001 Talk magazine article on that subject. A darkly hilarious story line about a corpse jostled from its coffin and wreaking havoc in the hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martin Bites Back | 8/31/2003 | See Source »

...Netherlands, a TV show called 6Pack, is funded by Heineken, but you won't see its logo during the show. 6Pack, which ended its 100-episode run last week, gave six young people 15 minutes each weeknight to amuse themselves on TV. They tried to glue themselves to the ceiling, learned how to spit fire, crashed a music-awards show - and won a nightly following of more than 75,000, all for "just six people with a couple of digital-video cameras," says producer Wouter Rengelink. Heineken provided the stars' salaries and 16 crates of beer - "R and D investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stealthy Sell | 8/3/2003 | See Source »

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