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...lonely people. He surfaced briefly to write songs for the TV shows That Was the Week That Was (no one, not even those who tried, can forget National Brotherhood Week) and The Electric Company (kids hummed Silent E for minutes on end), then retreated to his blackboard. So the Rhino compilation of his collected works--all 45 songs, including the newish (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica--is cause for temperate rejoicing from word nerds of all ages. Everyone, sing a chorus of Poisoning Pigeons in the Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Remains of Tom Lehrer | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Rhino...

Author: By Arts Editors, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Album Review: New Albums | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

...Internal Medicine suggested that hapless snifflers could cut a cold's duration almost in half by sucking on foul-tasting zinc lozenges. That's because zinc ions are about the same size and shape as the molecular doorway through which one major group of cold viruses, called the rhinoviruses (rhino for "nose"), breaks into the nasal cells. Coat those viruses with zinc, and they're too big to slide through the door. Or at least that's the theory. So far, a dozen studies have shown mixed results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Block That Cold! | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...chance to hear all these commercials collected for the first time is one reason to hail the new boxed set of Freberg's work from Rhino Records. But that's only part of the delight awaiting both fans and nonfans of Freberg, who has as much claim as anyone to the title of Great American Satirist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maestro of The Mike | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...meantime, Danny was at home. He had a radio and a cell phone and, when roused, a foot on the accelerator of his jeep as heavy as a rhino's. He got straight through to the nearest medical unit, which was in Broome, 75 miles away. Then he tore up the road to the wreck, where he held my hand, swore that help was coming and listened to me begging him to shoot me if the gasoline, which was leaking copiously from the crumpled innards of the car, caught fire. Would he have actually done so? I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Death's Throat | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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