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Ongoing concerns over fuel costs and aviation security make this an interesting time to be starting an airline, but StarFlyer (www.starflyer.jp), a new Japanese carrier, is hoping that its combination of no-frills reservation procedures and slick cabin environments will help it win customers in a cutthroat market. A seat on the company's Airbus A320s can only be purchased online or via a cell phone (assuming, in the latter case, that you're hooked up to a Japanese telecoms provider). Once on board, passengers enjoy a chic, black interior and an Internet connection in every seat. Personal video screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Starflyer is Born | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...hickish cowboy with his ceaseless spout of “Mama says.” His exaggerated western drawl, slouched walk, and eager country boy expressions are indisputably the icing of the show. Priour seems born for the part, effortlessly transitioning from his role this past March as the slick Billy Flynn in “Chicago.”Good choreography is a necessary force for any musical, but for “Footloose” in particular, and here, the choreography is brilliant. Jennings deserves high praise for her work—dance numbers that easily fit both...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cast Kicks Off Its Shoes to Success | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...Back then, Bettie Page was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Titter, Whisper and Wink, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day, maybe any day. (She was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.) As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garbo of Bondage | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...BASILICA, tel: (41-43) 366 9383, take revelers back to an even older era. More contemporary interiors are found at the LABOR BAR, tel: (41-44) 272 4402, backdrop to local TV celebrity Kurt Aeschbacher's chat show, or at HARD ONE, tel: (41-44) 444 1000, a slick rooftop lounge. Among the area's many good dance clubs are ROHSTOFFLAGER, tel: (41-44) 439 9090, and CLUB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pleasure Factory | 4/22/2006 | See Source »

...BASILICA, tel: (41-43) 366 9383, take revelers back to an even older era. More contemporary interiors are found at the Labor Bar, tel: (41-44) 272 4402, backdrop to local TV celebrity Kurt Aeschbacher's chat show, or at Hard One, tel: (41-44) 444 1000, a slick rooftop lounge. Among the area's many good dance clubs are Rohstofflager, tel: (41-44) 439 9090, and Club Q, tel: (41-43) 444 4050. But Zurich-West offers more than merely corporeal gratification. Culture vultures will enjoy the GALERIE Bob Van Orsouw, tel: (41-44) 273 1100, as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pleasure Factory | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

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