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King Midas is a preening billionaire in a business suit who has no patience for his playful daughter ("Take it inside!" he barks) until he accidentally turns her into a solid-gold accessory. Phaeton, sporting sunglasses and yellow swimming trunks, relaxes on a raft as he confides to a therapist his troubled relationship with his father, who happens to be the Sun. Myrrha, a girl so infected by the goddess of love that she commits incest with her father, gets her comeuppance by literally melting away--her body sinking out of sight, into the pool of water that takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gods in the Wading Pool | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...This week the guessing game comes to an end as Kamen unveils his baby under its official name: Segway. Given the buildup, some are bound to be disappointed. ("It won't beam you to Mars or turn lead into gold," shrugs Kamen. "So sue me.") But there is no denying that the Segway is an engineering marvel. Developed at a cost of more than $100 million, Kamen's vehicle is a complex bundle of hardware and software that mimics the human body's ability to maintain its balance. Not only does it have no brakes, it also has no engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reinventing the Wheel | 12/2/2001 | See Source »

...Crimson will take every point it can squeeze out of Prasse-Freeman this season. Still, he will be hard-pressed to make any of them count more than the two he netted with six ticks left at Lehigh. With the game on the line, Prasse-Freeman struck gold...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athlete of the Week: Elliott Prasse-Freeman '03 | 11/27/2001 | See Source »

...especially in a recent series of Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong concerts. "I get away with murder," she revels. "I mean, those shorts must have been the shortest in Hong Kong history. And then leaping into a bathtub ... " Shorts? They were more like a belt. Her legs were painted gold from the groin down, like something out of a James Bond credit sequence. At one point she stepped into a foaming bath and was sponged down by four scantily clad coryph?es. She lifted her feet in the air for them to admire and soap. Same-sex kink, fetish worship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mok-A-Bye Baby | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...Then comes the chilling glare and the sudden appearance of men in black safari suits?often moonlighting cops or soldiers. But the sure sign there is about to be trouble?a merciless beating, a pistol-whipping or a shooting?is when the offended party with a chest full of gold chains asks: "Do you know who my father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Untouchables | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

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