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...your hand up my a__ and make me do what you want." Still, Oz gave Brando plenty of freedom to ad-lib. During one scene--an argument with De Niro's character--Brando picked up a water bottle and, pretending it was a phone, mumbled, "Operator, we got a nut down here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: How To Make A Score | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...showstopping last track on Hot Shots II should be "Won," a cover of Harry Nilsson's 1968 composition "One" with a rap section thrown in. The juxtaposition of sixties pop with contemporary beats and rhymes is silly, self-consciously experimental, and ultimately beautiful -the Beta Band in a nut shell. If they and their fellow nod-inducers from across the Atlantic continue to churn out tunes of this caliber, we shall not want for lush, trippy ear candy in the '00s, and so we must be grateful for this miniature British invasion. Cohesive themes? Maxims to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finally, Rock Music You Can Nod Your Head To | 7/13/2001 | See Source »

...looks like some backwater bus depot, rather than the bustling hub it used to be. Hallways are darkened and quiet. Many of the brokers appear to be either asleep on a bench or playing solitaire on the exchange's computer terminals. Desolate bourse employees sit idle, spitting red betel-nut juice on the walls. "Everyone is just loitering about," says Vivek Mahajan, a broker and former vice president of the exchange. "They have nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Stock | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

They were big, mean-looking thugs, the corners of their down-turned mouths frothing with betel-nut juice. And the message they delivered to Huang Mei-shu that day last August was almost too horrible to contemplate. "We have your sister," they said. "She stinks. Pay $5,000 if you want her back in one piece." Huang's first instinct was to avoid trouble and fork over the cash. But times were tough for the Taipei slum-dweller, and the most she could rustle up was $500?a sum the kidnappers gruffly rejected. Scared and desperate, she went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grave Stakes | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...always been absolutely a nut about getting rid of bureaucracy," Tichy says. "He wants to be remembered for creating a nimble, fast moving, non-bureaucratic company--boundarylessness was a way for him to capture the concept of speeding up an organization by taking hierarchical layers...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: His Empire Complete, Welch Eyes Retirement | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

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