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...while on assignment in Paris - or, as they say here, l'exploitation de la compagnie - I checked out the real Moulin Rouge. The two-hour show was dripping with nudity. Every dance number contained fantastic period costumes that happened to be missing the top half, like Merchant-Ivory meets Stringfellows. There were pirates, clowns, cancan dancers, a woman swimming with giant eels, Egyptians, genies, Shetland ponies and, for reasons that must have to do with this being France, a 15-minute hand-shadow puppet show. I was insulted that the producers thought that the only way to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Naked And The Dead | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...while on assignment in Paris--or, as they say here, l'exploitation de la compagnie--I checked out the real Moulin Rouge. The two-hour show was dripping with nudity. Every dance number contained fantastic period costumes that happened to be missing the top half, like Merchant-Ivory meets Stringfellows. There were pirates, clowns, cancan dancers, a woman swimming with giant eels, Egyptians, genies, Shetland ponies and, for reasons that must have to do with this being France, a 15-minute hand-shadow puppet show. I was insulted that the producers thought that the only way to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Naked and the Dead | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

Harvard's lead reached double-digits in the second half, and the Crimson was poised to pull off another jarring win. When sophomore guard Brady Merchant connected on a trey with nine minutes left to expand the Crimson's lead to 11, Harvard appeared very much to be a team of destiny...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bad Luck Befalls M. Hoops | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...tarted up in bra, panties and stockings and loaded into rough wooden crates for delivery from San Marcos, California, to their new owners. The dolls' creator, 32-year-old Matt McMullen, is disarmingly normal. Wearing a baseball cap and faded jeans, he looks more grunge rocker than sleaze merchant. His merchandise, on the other hand, is way out there. The five body types range from sleek nymphets to one whose upper deck would make Anna Nicole Smith insecure. "We've actually scaled back from making the biggest one," says McMullen. "It was a little out of control." Cupping the pendulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Well, Hello, Dolly | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Kelly says blame the marketplace, not the merchant. After all, he's running a business here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why a 'Cleaner-Energy' Guy Doesn't Fear a Smokestack-Loving White House | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

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