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...shake my nerves and you rattle my brain Too much love drives a man insane You broke my will But what a thrill Goodness gracious! Great balls o' fire! -recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Golden Sun | 8/10/2002 | See Source »

...song is a familiar 12-bar blues in boogie-woogie tempo: two verses, a chorus ("Shake, baby, shake"), two verses of instrumental break (one featuring Jerry Lee amok on piano, his pummeling accentuated by an arpeggio as if he were running barefoot over the keys, and one of Roland Janes's less ornate but momentum-sustaining guitar work) followed by a reprise of the second verse with the inspired vocal filler "We got a chicken in the barn/ Whose barn? What barn? My barn!" (the drums whacking the "whose-what-my" to give it extra force and fun), then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Golden Sun | 8/10/2002 | See Source »

...sell controlling stakes in four key investment funds. BZ Group, Ebner's holding company, made the sale after the share prices of the firms in which the funds held stock plunged. But while Ebner may have always pushed hard for greater corporate accountability - he is credited with the shake-up of the Swiss banking industry - his successor may not have the same zeal: Zürcher Kantonal-bank, which bought majority voting rights in the stakes, has said already it will adopt a less activist stance than Ebner's. At least Buffett is carrying on the shareholder mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earnings | 8/4/2002 | See Source »

...head to do it. The good news is that these are 2,200 people who make me look like the young John Travolta. These are the people you see on convention floors, who are referred to as the party "faithful," which I suspect is code for "loser." They shake JANET RENO FOR GOVERNOR signs more than their booties. Never having been at a club where I felt at all cool, I use the opportunity to approach five women in half shirts and low-slung jeans and buy them Absolut and Red Bulls. I ask Nicole Gaviria, 32, of the shortest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Knew? The Lady Is a Dancin' Machine | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...mathematics, as he changed postings in the Navy. "I loved being a housewife," she recalls. "I thought it was very creative. You got to make things--cooking, baking, sewing. I got to color in coloring books with the kids and build forts out of blocks." But she couldn't shake a nagging desire to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Careers: Late Bloomer | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

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