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...Reuker's eponymous boutique, tel: (49-40) 439 3256, body-hugging jackets and sweaters are the big menswear sellers, alongside flowing skirts and blouses for the ladies. Traditionalists can meanwhile satiate their appetite for British-style men's suits at Herr von Eden, tel: (49-40) 439 0057, or nip across to Recession by Marla, tel: (49-40) 1801 8970, which specializes in flapper fashions and a bountiful selection of fishnets from the roaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamburg with Relish | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...going to be thinking great thoughts. GM has a three-year mission to restore its financial soundness" ... The company that once bestrode the world now has trouble paying its bills. "We wasted too much time and money, and we're finally down to the point where it's nip and tuck," says a senior GM executive. "To me, the sad part is, Couldn't we have done it any other way?" --TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 13 Years Ago In Time | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...Crimson’s numerous chances came largely as a result of its domination of the time of possession. Harvard’s midfielders won a majority of the airborne balls, while the Crimson backs pushed up to contest balls in the midfield and nip Rams’ offensive pushes off at the buds...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson, Rams Lock Horns | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...navigator took us to Nagasaki. We had gotten a report that the area was clear, but we noticed undercast clouds. By this time, we'd used almost an hour's gas at the rendezvous point, and the engineer was really sweating it. It was going to be nip and tuck. I went up to Sweeney and said, "We're going to be able to make one run on this target-if we're lucky." I told him to be prepared to use radar. This was in contradiction with orders we'd received that prohibited us from bombing without a visual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frederick Ashworth, 93 | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...takes two slugs in the chest, Annie is plunged into two surefire plots: a whodunit and a satirical fashion-world exposé. Baker is the editor of Britain's Cosmopolitan, so she knows whereof she writes--and she actually writes well. Annie and her colleagues have real inner demons to nip at the heels of their Manolos. By the end of Fashion Victim, you may even believe that models have feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Fantastic First Novels | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

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