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...probably never know if Bob Hope had any demons he dared not face. But action is--or eventually becomes--character. Lacking the anguish and self-doubt many great comedians come to feel about being funny in an unfunny world, he did something different: he became a bright, brisk anodyne for the torments of a brutal era. It was no small burden, and he carried it dauntlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Hope: The Machine-Age Comic | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...were a girl--and he'll probably take this the wrong way--he would be Christina Aguilera. The nu-metal that Moreno yawps as lead singer of Deftones is the masculine obverse of Aguilera's teen pop; both are gender-and age-specific modes of musical expression about sex, self-doubt and self-pity. Both tend to be pretty awful. But Moreno, like his Dirrty doppelganger, is perceived as being a cut above his peers, mainly because he can sing and occasionally because he can think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound And Some Fury | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...girl - and he'll probably take this the wrong way - he would be Christina Aguilera. The nu-metal that Moreno yawps as lead singer of the Deftones is the masculine obverse of Aguilera's teen pop; both are gender- and age-specific modes of musical expression about sex, self-doubt and self-pity. Both tend to be pretty awful. But Moreno, like his Dirrty doppelgänger, is perceived as being a cut above his peers, mainly because he can sing and occasionally because he can think. The Deftones' self-titled fourth album has enough of the usual brain-crunching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound And Some Fury | 5/25/2003 | See Source »

Americans should also be careful about Bush's ram-it-and-jam-it, get-real style of pre-emptive global law enforcement--Wyatt Earp on a mission of Napoleonic Wilsonianism. On the other hand, humility and self-doubt can get you killed in a dangerous world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right to Wear T Shirts | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...Americans should also be careful about Bush's ram-it-and-jam-it, get-real style of pre-emptive global law enforcement - Wyatt Earp on a mission of Napoleonic Wilsonianism. On the other hand, humility and self-doubt can get you killed in a dangerous world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right to Wear T Shirts | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

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