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...music, of a William S. Burroughs prose fragment about the Egyptian belief that we have seven souls: "Number six is Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory, your whole past conditioning from this and other lives." The shadows and memories of the dead hover close over the show, as the rubout fallout from the whackings of Adriana (Drea de Matteo) and Tony B. (Steve Buscemi) continues, not to mention Tony's continuing baggage inherited from his late mother Livia. There's a general sense, in this last season, of a deathbed taking-stock, even a few self-referential scenes in which the series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fortunate Son | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

...massive subterranean layer where wines were stored and baths taken. Just off the duke's study are two alcoves: the Temple of the Muses and the Chapel of Forgiveness. (Between his battlefield deeds and the generally agreed-upon fact that Federico was complicit in his half-brother's rubout, there was much to absolve.) I sat on the floor in both rooms and absorbed the feel of history, whistling to hear the little echoes and gently rubbing my hands over the stone floors. Maybe I was being a tad presumptuous, but I don't think the duke would have minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Life: A Tribute to Art | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

Mark Zaslavsky sleeps with the fishes. No, he's not the victim of a Godfather-style rubout. But when Sturgeon Aquafarms imported its first live belugas after a seven-year slog of red tape, he slept next to the tank holding the five 50-lb. creatures on the flight from Germany to protect his investment. (He had trucked them to Germany from Russia.) Zaslavsky hopes to produce the first American-grown beluga sturgeon and caviar, in 36 tanks on the 1,700-acre farm of his partner Gene Evans just outside Pierson, Fla. To fish farmers, beluga is the Holy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Fishing for Black Gold | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

...crime scene was equally perplexing. The Honda was strewn with money. Luna's ID was found on his body. His 36 stab wounds appeared to have been caused by a penknife-size instrument. Said a puzzled veteran federal investigator: "A professional rubout, they'd put one in the back of your head and dump you in the harbor. There's something else going on here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case He Left Behind | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

Remote-Control Rubout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 2002 | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

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