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...diplomats scramble to stop the shooting, each side is demanding that the other back down. The standoff resembles a game played by children in villages throughout Lebanon. Two youngsters stand face to face, and each sticks a finger in the other one's mouth; both start biting down. The one who screams and pulls his finger out first is the loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DARK WITH BLOOD | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...considered a big event in this frat-heavy college town. The members of Hootie, hometown heroes who made it big, have decided to join the festivities unannounced. The other acts are mostly smaller, local ones with monikers that evoke the names of long shots on racing forms--Cowboy Mouth, Gracie Moon, Treadmill Trackstar. So it's sure to cause a commotion when Hootie--a band that has sold 13 million copies and counting of its debut album, Cracked Rear View--suddenly shows up and starts playing at one of the dozen or so small festival stages. Says drummer Jim ("Soni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CAN 13 MILLION HOOTIE FANS REALLY BE WRONG? | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...singer out front, conclude that somebody somewhere must be selling someone out? What does it matter if some people take the band's collegiate, party-hearty Southern past to mean that its music must have as much intrinsic worth as a Confederate bank note? Every time Rucker opens his mouth and his booming baritone roars out, strong, sure, suffused with history and hidden hurt, it overwhelms the doubts. Nobody is going to take this band's faith away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CAN 13 MILLION HOOTIE FANS REALLY BE WRONG? | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...Wences was a staple on TV for three decades, starting on the Ed Sullivan Show, where he conducted absurd conversations with his dummy Pedro, his puppet Cecelia the chicken, or the blond-wigged Johnny, a face he painted on his hand, moving thumb and index finger to simulate a mouth. Born Wenceslao Moreno, he imitated voices as a child. He worked as an amateur bullfighter but, after being gored repeatedly, took up circus juggling. Later his ventriloquist act achieved worldwide fame. In his mid-80s he appeared on the Muppet Show and Late Night With David Letterman; he also toured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 29, 1996 | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...guests at the Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner were shocked at the mean mouth of Imus? Trash talk is his trademark. When a farm animal is invited to a banquet, don't be surprised if he shows up smelling like the barnyard. TOM HOPPENJAN Moline, Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1996 | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

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