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...biggest I ever had on the line - about four feet long, as the judge, who was manning the net, will attest - was almost in the boat when, being an idiot, I thought to tighten the drag a little (a violation of one of the simplest rules) and the monster thrashed loose. Hast seen the white whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Magnificent, Maddening Muskie | 8/23/2000 | See Source »

...President Bush, his hip hurting a bit and stomach churning more than normal (old-time ulcer knocking on the wall?), is in Philadelphia's elegant Rittenhouse Hotel, humor and asperity bubbling, TV clicker in hand, scolding the blaring monster screen on which friends and foes from the days of power are babbling about him and W. And while watching TV, he is riffling through magazines, offering his own irreverent editing: "That's crazy...Good pictures...Hey, they got that right for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Convention: I Made a Mistake. I Went Too Far | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...President Bush, his hip hurting a bit and stomach churning more than normal (old-time ulcer knocking on the wall?), is in Philadelphia's elegant Rittenhouse Hotel, humor and asperity bubbling, TV clicker in hand, scolding the blaring monster screen on which friends and foes from the days of power are babbling about him and W. And while watching TV he is riffling through magazines, offering his own irreverent editing. "That's crazy... good pictures... hey, they got that right for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush: 'I Made a Mistake. I Went Too Far' | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...when Baker caused panic by covering a neighbor boy with a fake third-degree burn. "I realized it was a pretty sick thing to do," he says. That's when little Rick turned his attention to primates. "Because of King Kong, the gorilla was the perfect Hollywood monster. I really felt it was something that I could do. So I started on this quest at a very early age." And that's how Rick Baker ended up on his very own planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Making Faces | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...sort of kitschy street theater you expect in a city like San Francisco. A gaggle of protesters in front of a grocery store, some dressed as monarch butterflies, others as Frankenstein's monster. Signs reading HELL NO, WE WON'T GROW IT! People in white biohazard jumpsuits pitching Campbell's soup and Kellogg's cornflakes into a mock toxic-waste bin. The crowd shouting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho--GMO has got to go!" And, at the podium, Jesse Cool, a popular restaurant owner, wondering what would happen if she served a tomato spliced with an oyster gene and a customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Protests: Taking It To Main Street | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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