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...sometimes he fools you. His new album's title track perks and chirps along like a burger jingle. Not until you peel off the tinsel and listen to the lyrics--"You had a scent for scandal/ Well here's my middle finger/ I had 40 years of pain/ and nothing to cling to"--do you hear John raging at his homeland and his fickle fans. "It's sort of a 'screw you' song," says Taupin. "I put myself in his shoes and heard him saying, 'This is me, accept me for what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROARING BACK | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

...minute break is over, so I have to ponder the meaning of this through the rest of my shift. Then, I drag myself up out of the couch, open the front door and peel up the doormat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...have to face it daily, the Leverett painting serves as something to talk about while eating. Leverett resident Amnon A. Bar-Ilan '96 says that he and his friends spent much of last year "making secret conspiracies to do bad things to the painting. Like spray paint it. Or peel the paint off one blob at a time and see if the master noticed...

Author: By Ann D. Schiff, | Title: The Art of Eating | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

Although some of the pieces are interesting enough, don't make a special trip to the MFA for this show. The radio commercial tries to make "Grand Illusions" sound intriguing: "There may be only one way to peel a banana, but there are countless ways to paint one." There are many confusing and unthinking ways to hang...

Author: By Tara B. Reddy, | Title: Delusions of Grandeui | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

Even Charles' foes acknowledge that he is not a villain, but he seems to have a self-destructive streak. Some of it is just banana-peel comedy. The day of the broadcast he plowed the plane he was piloting off the runway: he misjudged his landing approach. More serious is his capacity for ill-advised self-revelation, which raises the question of whether he is fit to rule. When he claimed he was faithful to Princess Diana until the marriage was "irretrievably broken," he may have opened himself to the charge of lying. The next day Andrew Morton, the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Shouldn't Rule | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

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