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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wait. Is it possible that Wintour isn't so much a sponge-squeezing killjoy as simply ... an editor? She names decisiveness as her greatest strength, and the movie shows her making good decisions, rapidly and repeatedly. The first picture Wintour vetoes from Coddington's treasured shoot is distractingly fussy and rococo. Grace mopes, but the magazine benefits. At the film's climax, Cutler plays up the drama of Coddington's refusal to allow an appealing but not-quite-model-standard image to be digitally nipped and tucked at Wintour's request. It's lively storytelling, except that Wintour's suggestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The September Issue: Humanizing the Devil | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

...recently suffered through an overwhelming slew of requests to give a grain of rice, send good karma and rate your friends on everything including their hotness, creativity, fashion sense and intelligence. I wasn't merely skeptical - I was annoyed. But I didn't want to be a killjoy - and I love plants - so I went ahead and clicked "Accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suffering From Facebook Fatigue? | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...time my father offers me a sip from his bottle during a football game, or I find myself with a can of Natty Lite at a room party, I’m going to pass on it. And it’s not because I’m a killjoy...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles and Emma M. Lind | Title: A Beer a Day… | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...final club, dignity drops down the list of priorities when there is nowhere else to go on a Saturday night. Likewise, while a lot of men don’t necessarily want to regularly vomit up eight pints of cheap beer, if saying no brands them a boring killjoy, they’ll join...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Knitting a Revolution | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...killjoy, but with gas prices soaring and global warming such a worry, why encourage a gas guzzler of a pastime? The Super Bowl in its entirety probably guzzles as much gas as the Daytona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 12, 2006 | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

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