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...songs, the nonstop snazz and of course the bawdry - or, as she puts it, "hits, glitz and tremendous tits." Innuendo goes out the window when Miss M. comes to town. The clerk at the ticket desk offers the friendly warning that this is "adult entertainment," and inside you'll hear Midler caution the crowd, "Please don't call the Pope if you see a tit or two." You won't have to phone Rome; skinwise, the show is pretty chaste. Bette relies on one of her longtime characters - Soph (for Sophie Tucker), the oldest babe in show business - to supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Takes Vegas, Leaves Bathhouse | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...Gosling's charming performance and the film's generosity of spirit fill in the cracks of its longueurs. And you're bound to admire a movie that in this age of snazz and cynicism, has the surpassing nerve to be nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soft Girl Is Hard to Find | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...with an in-your-face, chatter-heavy lineup. CNN (like TIME, an AOL Time Warner property), which had long subscribed to the motto The News Is the Star, was shaking up its management and hiring star talent like anchor Paula Zahn--swiped from Fox amid much acrimony--to snazz up its often staid image. But the war made viewers want news, not shouting--old CNN-style news, with in-depth reports from far-flung correspondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The NASCAR Of News | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...their speed, size, snazz and craftsmanship, in their siren call to the restless spirit, cars sum up a lot of American virtues. They also waste natural resources, soot up the landscape and end lives. But that's for another book. Lewis has no photos of afternoon gridlock on the 405. She's here to sing the body automotive: mile-long Caddies outside a drive-in; the family car at Roy's Cafe, Motel & Gas. These elegant images of classic cars magically transport the reader to the intersection of Nostalgia Road and Dream Drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treats That Speak Volumes | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Audiences around the world gawk at the production's snazz and scope: / lightning bolts, trapdoors, a musician's tomb that is bigger than Grant's. They bathe in the show's warm melody and soap-opera suds. They thrill when Christine kisses the unmasked Phantom and, by this display of courage and tenderness, wins her freedom from his spell. "There's something about the title and the mystique surrounding the show," says Cameron Mackintosh, producer of Phantom as well as Cats, Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, "that makes people desperate to see it -- not once, but many dozen times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phantom Mania | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

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