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...Lamp with Locks If you fancy your chances as a hair stylist, but can't find anyone rash enough to volunteer as a model, this hanging lamp is the answer. The brainchild of young Austrian designers Monica Singer and Marie Rahm, the lamp is made from strips of polyester film and comes packaged with a pair of scissors so you can snip it into shape. Just take a little off the sides, please. polkaproducts.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Personal Touch | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

...compete for an entrée into the established fashion world, more young people are trying their hand at this traditional domestic art. The Home Sewing Association estimates that there are about 35 million sewing hobbyists in the U.S., up from roughly 30 million in 2000, and annual sales of Singer machines have doubled, to 3 million, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Circling Back To Sewing | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

Although the thought of Johnny Rotten writing the next Catcher in the Rye seems weird, Portman is punk's best-educated tone-deaf singer. An excellent student at Berkeley, he deferred a Ph.D. program in history at Harvard to play in a Bay Area punk band. Not only that, but he knew the teen genre because in high school he worked as a children's librarian, and as part of the job he downed all the young-adult classics. The Mr. T Experience's teen anthems were surprisingly literary: a breakup song, Checkers Speech, is based on Nixon's television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Revenge of the Dork | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...admits. But it was also a savvy move that built on her two biggest assets: fame and a familiarity with the city. Her platform was simple to the point of seeming simplistic: cut crime and promote Detroit as a tourist attraction for music. But after four decades as lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas, Reeves knew how to move a crowd. She campaigned almost as easily as she had once made hits like Heat Wave and Dancing in the Streets. And she won her seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Second Act | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...mediocrity can take hold when an agenda begins to get stale. The elections were a clear referendum on his leadership. He seemed to ignore criticism and was ineffective in achieving any of his goals, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Republican Party paid the price on Election Day. Jethro Singer Santa Monica, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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