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...found through online dating services don't offer much. One of them takes her to a movie comedy and doesn't laugh; to dinner and doesn't talk; to bed and he utters not a word before falling asleep. Next to this troglodyte, Harry seems like man-meat from heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baffled by Burn After Reading | 8/31/2008 | See Source »

...whether he also hobnobbed with the top carpenters.) Like an assiduous upward-achiever, he was trying to get noticed; he didn't succeed enough to suit him. Even in his late collages, Manny was craving the attention of the art-critical establishment. A scrap on his painting Batiquitos reads: "Heaven to be noticed by Roberta Smith or [Adam] Gopnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manny Farber: Termite of Genius | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

...hope for an eight-placed finish in the 2008 medal table. In short, their ambitions proved most un-British-like. "The performance of 'Team GB' in the Olympics is moving beyond the sublime and towards the ridiculous," said an editorial in Britain's Daily Telegraph. "We are British, for heaven's sake - how are we supposed to cope with such a relentless diet of good news, such an unprecedented glut of world-beating performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing Unstiffens Brits' Upper Lips | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

...respect your view on abortion, but I'm pro-choice ... And you know, Pastor Rick, Jesus never mentions abortion in the Bible. He did say, though, that it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter heaven. Now, that's a metaphor - but it's also good tax policy. Unlike John McCain, I want to make it easier for rich people to go to heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's Obama's Passion? | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...they're not the cartoonish images of clouds parting and shining light upon Obama that might be expected in an ad spoofing him as a messiah. Instead, the screen displays a sinister orange light surrounded by darkness and later the faint image of a staircase leading up to heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Antichrist Obama in McCain Ad? | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

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