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...kilogram men aren't indestructible. In 2002, Takanohana missed seven consecutive tournaments due to a knee injury. He made an impressive comeback last September, but after losing last week to an opponent he would once have chomped like sashimi, he knew it was time to hang up the loincloth. "I have no regrets," he told the press. Maybe, but sumo's notoriously conservative overlords might, as Takanohana was the only active Japanese yokozuna. The most Japanese of sports may crown as its next champion a Mongolian named Asashoryu. Tsuneo Watanabe, the head of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, said: "I pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way of All Flesh | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...Director Jira Malikul's whimsical feature posits that the fireballs are set off by Lao monks, not soldiers. The dreamy opening sequence follows loincloth-clad divers as they plant clay "eggs" along the riverbed. Illuminated boats sweep by above, lighting up the expectant faces of the throng assembled along the riverbank. Then the pink fireballs burst skyward from the water to resounding cheers. The mythical snake is breathing fire again, welcoming the Buddha back to earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 11/17/2002 | See Source »

...Along builds a new home of wood and thatch in the forest every few weeks or months, depending on the availability of game. He dresses in traditional Penan attire, a loincloth that covers his genitalia but leaves his muscular buttocks bare. His feet are disproportionately large and splayed, never having been confined by shoes. He wears necklaces fashioned from rattan and brightly colored beads, the bezel of a gilded wristwatch glinting incongruously beneath a mass of twine bracelets. (The watch has stopped at 3:50.) When he was young, his earlobes were distended by heavy weights. They now hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Without a Trace | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...wrapped in a towel. He takes a few slugs of Diet Coke, has a mouthpiece popped in--actually a set of prosthetic rotten teeth--gets his scars and scabs touched up and then swings overboard again. Perhaps out of patriotism, I avert my eyes from his skimpy loincloth. I mean, that'd be like checking out Thomas Jefferson's package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Saving Tom Hanks | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

David walked out to fight in a loincloth with a sling. Goliath stepped out in a 10-foot shimmer of bronze with a 20-foot spear. A group of men ran onto the plain and hog-tied David to make things fair...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, | Title: Keeping It a Fair Fight for Financial Aid | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

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