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...Oscar hasn't changed much in 70 years, so here are some designers' ideas for possible face-lifts. Alessandro Mendini and Alessi offer a female Oscar, far left, that looks more like a transsexual corkscrew. Paula Scher designed a giant letter O, left, which also works nicely as a paperweight. Industrial Light + Magic whipped up Floating Oscar, far right, which suggests movie magic but could prove too ethereal for any teary actress wanting to clasp it to her bosom. Peter Arnell imagines Oscar as a constellation, above, and would carve out an actual constellation in the shape of the statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remodeling | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...giddily genial Herbert Pocket. It embraced him, in Guinness's grand postwar decade of Ealing Studios comedies--both as that Candidean innocent, the creator of a miracle fabric in The Man in the White Suit, and as the mousy banker who nearly pulls off the legendary Eiffel Tower paperweight caper in The Lavender Hill Mob. It saw him locate the suicidal pride of the colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when the older Guinness sat, purring and omniscient, for the role of George Smiley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blessings in Disguise: ALEC GUINNESS (1914-2000) | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...which carried a battery charge for a good half-hour or so, was out of juice or I was in one of the many dead spots that appeared to plague my mobile life. After three months of this, I stopped paying my bill and used the phone as a paperweight. The consumer-hateful contract ensured that I'd pay for a year's service no matter what, so a black mark soon appeared on my credit rating, like a bruise. I refused to capitulate, dedicating my life instead to abolishing cell phones and giving mean stares to people who talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellular Browsing | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...CLASS: paperweight...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is the WWF Spectacular Theater or Total Trash? A WWF Newbie's Account | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...really. That sugary last sentence, conjuring a toy town in a glass paperweight, doesn't describe Northampton or, fortunately, Kidder's fond but unsentimental book. The author's great gift, in fact, is for looking at his subjects straight on. He did this impressively in The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the development of a supermini-computer, and in House (1985), about the jostling interchanges among architect, builders and buyers of a private home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Soul of a Small Town | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

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