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...this stricken cityscape, the truly malevolent -the Judge and his Beadle (Timothy Spall, that Hogarth cartoon of an actor, here more rodentoid than usual) - find their appropriate end. But so does the merely preening Pirelli, "the barber of kings, the king of barbers," impersonated with gusto by Sacha Baron Cohen. (All those real people Baron Cohen has fooled and mocked in his Ali G. and Borat incarnations may flock to see Pirelli get outsmarted and sliced up.) There is one decent young couple, a mirror of the barber and his wife in their early bliss: Sweeney's daughter Joanna (Jayne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweeney Todd: Horror and Humanity | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

...have a death wish, it's tough to push it to the max. On New York's Taconic Parkway, I never had to shift above fourth gear to feel like a human cannonball and pull all the Le Mans moves I could safely muster. With four-wheel drive and Pirelli 18-in. tires, the car never felt unstable. But here's the rub: it takes every ounce of restraint not to break the speed limit in this bull, yet the sound of the engine behind you is so overwhelming you may not notice the state trooper until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bull on Wheels | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...from a MILAN SKYSCRAPER struck head-on by a small plane last week, the scene eerily recalled images of the World Trade Center attacks. But none of Italian authorities' theories about the CRASH, which killed the PILOT and two others, point to terrorism. Moments before hitting the 30-story Pirelli building, the pilot reported trouble with his landing gear to air-traffic controllers. If MECHANICAL FAILURE was not to blame, investigators speculated that he might have taken ill. A grimmer hypothesis was offered to an Italian newspaper by the pilot's son: that his father, in financial trouble, had committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deja Vu? | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...plane did everything wrong from beginning to end," Lunardi told reporters. "If this accident had happened before Sept. 11 one might just have talked about destiny, but seeing as it happened after Sept. 11 destiny seems less plausible." Maurizio Vitali, who worked in the regional government offices on the Pirelli building's second floor, was thinking of the World Trade Center as he and his colleagues filed down the stairs after hearing a "huge blast" and seeing glass and debris raining down from above. "It's hard to know what was in the pilot's mind, but I know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Moment Of Terror | 4/21/2002 | See Source »

ITALY Echo of Sept. 11 When an aircraft crashed into the 30-story Pirelli tower in the center of Milan, many feared a repeat of Sept. 11. Initial investigations revealed that minutes before the crash, 67-year-old Luigi-Gino Fasulo, pilot of the four-seater tourist plane, had radioed air traffic control that he had landing-gear problems. Fasulo and two women died and 29 other people were injured. "This had nothing to do with the haunting images of the Twin Towers," said Interior Minister Claudio Scajola. "Sure, tragedy struck, but it could have been worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 4/21/2002 | See Source »

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