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...ordinary human vice of myopia and turned it into the very face of evil. It's a narcissism of colossal proportions. The final indignity is that the man who murdered dozens of children - calling them "collateral damage" -considered smuggling his own sperm out of prison so that he could sire children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lowering the Self-Interest Rate | 3/30/2001 | See Source »

...Even Franzoni admits he was "bothered" by some of the semantics. He points out that addressing the Emperor Commodus as "sire"--a title used in the middle ages--was nonsensical...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latin Professor Who Consulted on | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's spin-off is darker stuff, visually and in tone, than its Sunnydale sire. That's what happens when your hero can't see daylight without bursting into flames. Recovering bloodsucker Angel (David Boreanaz) has retreated to the sleazy side of L.A. to nurse a broken heart and protect humans, ideally without snacking on them. Besides its hulking, gloomy lead and self-absorbed-as-ever foil Cordelia, Angel also borrows Buffy's stylish thrills and its flashes of humor, sharp and surprising as teeth on your neck in a dark alley. Here's hoping it ultimately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angel | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...factories and desolate, ruined people. Its harrowing music, for better or worse, established Reznor and his band, Nine Inch Nails, as one of the few fresh voices rock has produced since Kurt Cobain. But in the view of some social critics, its X-rated imagery made Reznor the spiritual sire of school violence and corrupted youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reznor's Redemption | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Music Warner Bros. Records, Atlantic, Elektra, Sire, Rhino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CBS-Viacom Merger: World Of The Media Giants | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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