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...years (the March 20, 2000, cover of TIME called the rebirth of design "commodity chic"). But why are creators of fashion, home and industrial design suddenly looking back for inspiration? Maybe the '50s era appeals to Americans because it was the last time we felt truly optimistic. As design guru Murray Moss says, it's the values of that decade that draw us back; we want products that are more emotional. Perhaps we also live in a time when we want security in every detail. --Kate Betts

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 1950s State of Mind | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

...revealed last week, that auditing firm Ernst & Young warned of "substantial doubt" that the publicly traded gaming company run by Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts could continue as a viable enterprise. The prospect of a flashy failure could tousle the Donald's carefully coiffed image as a business guru. Fighting back, he declared last week that his casinos "have always been a good company" and that he will prove it by focusing on them until they are fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trump's Reality Woes | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

Which leads to the defining question about Ben Kweller. What has he got that all the other guitar-toting guys don't? Most obviously, Kweller has a tale of woe. In 1996, when he was just 15, his garage band, Radish, was signed by Nirvana guru Danny Goldberg to a major-label deal and was subsequently profiled at Proustian length in the New Yorker. The album that came out of the experience, Restraining Bolt, wasn't bad, but Kweller could not have marshaled more jealous cultural forces against him had he been handed a MacArthur genius grant at graduation. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Second Time Around | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

Maybe after all that sweatin', RICHARD SIMMONS doesn't know his own strength. After a fellow traveler spied the frizzy-haired fitness guru at a Phoenix, Ariz., airport last week and shouted, "Hey, everybody, it's Richard Simmons. Let's drop our bags and rock to the '50s," Simmons allegedly slapped the heckler and was cited for assault. An "emotional" Simmons said the slap was merely playful, according to the police report. "It's not nice to make fun of people with issues," Simmons reportedly said to the victim. O.K., then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airport Rage? | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...addition to his work on Democratic presidential campaigns, Greenberg worked for scores of other domestic campaigns and in the Clinton White House. He has served as a polling guru and political adviser to world leaders such as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former South African President Nelson Mandela, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder...

Author: By Kenneth D. Schultz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pollster Urges Nonpartisanship | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

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