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...band, unpredictable and defying of description. Getting a sense of their music without listening to their whole catalogue is only misleading, because they always have something new up their sleeve. In a world full of self-proclaimed “rock chameleons,” they are the Lego band, reinventing themselves in endlessly colorful reincarnations...

Author: By Andrew R. Illif, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chaos Theory | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

From that moment forward, her grief unspooled on a public stage, and everyone wanted a hand in her recovery. Strangers sent their sympathy wrapped in handmade quilts, Lego sets and VIP passes to U.S. Space Camp and Bruce Springsteen concerts. One day a shaky Mary Tyler Moore went on cnn to read a poem by an Aon employee detailing how Hilary's dad had talked to co-workers about his daughter. In her hometown on the Jersey Shore, Hilary was instantly cast as "the 9/11 kid." Students in her school either acted cloyingly sweet or parted ways when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Daughter: The 9/11 Kid | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...profit, and they still have the car - all tuned up, to boot. Bravo, wise guys. • That I should not admire wise guys; they're ruining the planet. • That my two-year-old son's ability to assemble complex structures with his Lego doesn't qualify him as a captain of industry. • That there is poetry in small shareholders. At Vivendi's April 24 general assembly, I witnessed holders of just 10 shares screaming through greed-distorted faces: "Monsieur Messier, what we want are profiiiiits!" Profits - on 10 shares? At best these cretins would be earning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Fell to Earth | 7/7/2002 | See Source »

...Started: Grownups playing with Lego bricks Judgment: Why should kids have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Kicks from Plastic Bricks | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...clearly says Legos are meant for kids from 18 months to 5 years old, but adults are enthusiastically ignoring that advisory and finding their own uses for the plastic building bricks. The music video for the White Stripes' Fell in Love with a Girl uses animation to re-create the band out of Legos. Lego art is also hot, with collectors commissioning mosaics and sculptures from artists like Eric Harshbarger for upwards of $800, including the Mona Lisa done in the form. And then there are the websites devoted to Lego creations. At thebricktestament.com Lego fan Brendan Powell Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Kicks from Plastic Bricks | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

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