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Cunningham performed long after the last strand of hair on his wily mane had turned gray. His final piece of choreography, Nearly Ninety, premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April to mark his 90th birthday. In June the Cunningham Dance Foundation unveiled a "living legacy" plan to maintain his body of work. But to Cunningham, his art was not meant to endure. Dance, he said, "gives you nothing back ... nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merce Cunningham | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...astronaut, a deep-sea diver and a Green Beret. But outcry over American involvement in Vietnam dampened enthusiasm for a camo-clad action figure, so Hasbro gave Joe an honorable discharge. It redesigned the toys and relaunched them in 1970 as Adventures of G.I. Joe: the figure received lifelike hair, moveable eyes and a "kung-fu" grip, enabling him to hold onto objects for the first time. But the changes proved to be a gimmick, taken even further by Hasbro with the development of a space-traveling "Super Joe" in 1976. The reception was lukewarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: G.I. Joe | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...from my own lemon tree." While B.P. rode herd over Cecil B. De Mille and Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich, the teenage Budd enjoyed the attention of his father's sexy stars. Clara Bow, the It Girl of silent pictures, ran her fingers through the boy's hair and even suggested they go out partying. (Flashback 1973: TIME Cover - Marlon Brando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Budd Schulberg, Boss of the Brando Waterfront | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...break or a vote until committee members came up with a way to pay for the health-care legislation that was being hammered out in Congress. Maintaining his usual sartorial discipline, Rangel was wearing a pearl gray suit with a checkered tie and gold tiepin; a crest of gray hair was slicked neatly over the top of his head, and a chunky opal ring twinkled on his right hand. But his eyes were beginning to resemble those of a bloodhound exhausted by the hunt. "We have to raise $1.2 trillion," he said. "It's like pulling teeth. I haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Rangel: The Lion of Harlem | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...first thing one notices about Rangel is his appearance: every hair carefully in place with the aid of a purple comb he keeps in his pocket. The second is the way he speaks: his voice is deep and raspy, and he expresses himself with a bluntness that suggests he's been around too long to care what people think. At 79, Rangel is one of Capitol Hill's oldest lions, with an impressive backstory that lends him stature with his colleagues. "As a leader in Congress, he's a respected voice," says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Rangel: The Lion of Harlem | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

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