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...approaches, and casually drives past me, giving me a mildly quizzical look, and keeps going on down around the road. I contrast this with the instant fusillade of honking, yelling, fist-waving and litigation that a microsecond of hesitation during any traffic maneuver elicits in my current metro area of residence. This clears up any doubt that I am far away from home. I get out and walk around, just to get a sense of the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fool on the Hill | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

Surprisingly, comic-genius Myers is the weakest link in the packed cast. Shrek, who sounds sort of like Fat Bastard Lite, has few good lines, and it is Donkey who steals the show. In what may be Murphy's funniest role since The Nutty Professor (or Metro, but that was more of an unintentional thing), Donkey prances around the screen, firing off a stream of surprisingly funny jokes and comments. Lithgow also deserves praise and laughs for his vocals on Farquaad, who is perhaps the first on-screen character ever on screen to have computer-animated chest hair...

Author: By Daniel S. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Unconventional Fairy Tale | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...great thing to have a No. 1," Rein says, "but my hard work really starts now." He believes his best results come when he's working as part of a team. At home in Stockholm, he's based at Eclectic Productions. He also works frequently with Britain's Metro team. Their material will appear on upcoming albums from Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and Cleo Higgins of pop-soul trio Cleopatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Like A Number One | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...Bush campaign called network political directors and insisted that key Republican precincts in the panhandle of Florida hadn't yet been counted, while Gore staffers claimed that the reliably Democratic counties of Metro-Dade and Broward in South Florida hadn't yet come...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nation Demands Explanation For Blown Calls | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...just plain plumb pisses Cliff Johnson off. Cliff is the 73-year-old president of the Metro Wayne Democratic Club, and he's watched his membership go from 130 three-four years ago to about 80 today. "They don't know about hard times anymore," Cliff says. "They think they're big shots. Don't need anybody anymore. They're ripe to lose everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ground Zero in the Presidential Battleground | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

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