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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their art policies as family propaganda. Like all other dynasties, the Medici in due course fizzled out; one of the last of them was the grotesque Gian Gastone (1671-1737), a mountain of fat and wobbly wigs, who commissioned practically nothing, kept puking on the table at court banquets, stank like a polecat and spent the last eight years of his life in bed, imploring boys (vainly, one hopes) to join him there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mighty Medici | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...fire on American warplanes--when it was fired on. Sometimes the scaremongering is done at a remove. Recently the Washington Post and the New York Times ran stories on the same day claiming that the U.S. was ready to commit 250,000 troops to an invasion; the double whammy stank of a calibrated piece of propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Secret Campaign To Topple Saddam | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg acknowledged the obvious at the opening plenary session of Davos-in-New York on Thursday night; the weather stank. Outside the Waldorf-Astoria, demonstrators and cops shivered in a cold, persistent drizzle; inside, delegates sweltered in the over-heating that seems to tempt every hotel manager. As they negotiated the temperature gradient between Park Avenue and the Waldorf's Peacock Alley, you could also almost see, as well as hear, a thousand snuffles. The mood of attendees was not helped, either, by the never ending line for the hand-held gizmo that enables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Davos Devotee: Day Two | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...object of scorn and an object of lust,” according to Hist & Lit concentrator Joseph F. Brauntuch ‘04. Responded Fox punchmaster Brice I. Wideriver ‘02: “So I was like, ‘what’s that stank smell?’ and it was pussy! I love pussy...

Author: By Gossip Guy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...Clippy's agent asked for too much b) of a cheaper mascot, Severancy c) Clippy's short answers drove everyone nuts d) Clippy stank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Apr. 23, 2001 | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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