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...Door. "Sanford" is built around the love-hate relationship of a black father and son who run a junk business in Los Angeles. But it is no "Family" in blackface. Its humor plays with prejudices rather than on them. "Were they colored?" the police asked the elder Sanford about a gang of thieves in an early episode. "Yeah," he replied. "White." The old man, played by Redd Foxx, has none of Archie's anger. He is simply an engaging con artist who will resort to any ruse to keep his son from quitting the business and leaving home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Team Behind Archie Bunker & Co. | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...semiannual summit between the E.U. and the U.S., were bound to be trickier--and were. On their own territory--Bush was the first sitting U.S. President ever to visit Sweden--the Europeans set the agenda, which consisted mainly of beating up on Bush for his decision to junk the Kyoto accord. Climate change dominated both the formal meeting and the dinner that evening in Goteborg's town hall. Bush, said an Administration official, found the dinner a "long two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tour Without A Trip | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...Liebman puts it, "Fortified junk food is still junk food." Most women can get the nutrients they need just as well, and much more cheaply, from a daily multivitamin as from a 170-cal. nutrition bar that costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Food Of One's Own | 6/17/2001 | See Source »

...Jack's room is still pretty small, in the literal sense; a modest-sized bed and some shelves take up the better part of it. But as he is pointing out various junk sculptures and random red and white objects in his house, a friend surfing the Internet calls him into a room that has become a slapdash White Stripes office to show him something on the screen: a copy of the first White Stripes single has just sold for $100 on eBay. "It was at $68 yesterday," Jack laughs, shaking his head in amazement. Soon after, the keyboardist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: White Lies and The White Stripes | 6/16/2001 | See Source »

...Good stuff, not junk food or liquor. I want to give that to them. They are studying late at night,” he said...

Author: By Alexandra B. Haggiag, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tommy's Pushes For Late-Night Market | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

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