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...Academy also has a tradition of honoring significant artists long past their prime. So the nominees as composers in the Song category included Bob Dylan ('60s), Randy Newman ('70s), Sting ('80s) and Bjork (summer of '93). Even the kids who loved Dylan in his first festering bloom are nearing forced-retirement age, so his win had the attic odor of a Life Achievement Award for still being alive. In his via-satellite performance of "Things Have Changed," Dylan, who turns 60 in May, looked like a desiccated Snideley Whiplash, slim mustache and all. But it was worth it to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crouching Traffic, Hidden Winner | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...sucker for the melancholy. I guess that's one of the things, coming from this place. If you listen to ABBA and Ace of Base, it's always sort of melancholy. I love the stuff Sting does, because he also has that feeling in his music. I actually think it's easier to write a beautiful melody in minor than in major. A happy song is great, but I think the songs you remember are when you're sad. It's not that I'm a sad person. Not at all. That's just my taste in music. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Music Man | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...plump hips. She leans over the man's rump, rubs a furry cheek for aim, cocks her hand a good meter back and delivers a thunderclap wallop. Then she slings a high-heeled boot over his back and, straddling his haunches, spanks and rubs in rapid succession: hot sting, warm caress, hot sting again. Without missing a stroke, she looks up at a visitor and explains with a broad smile: "This is his ideal lunchtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...Tehelka's sting turned New Delhi's corridors of power into a battlefield. Among the casualties are the national president of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party (resigned); the national president of the Samta Party, part of Vajpayee's ruling coalition (resigned); Defense Minister George Fernandes (resigned), and several top army officers (suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Plucky Dot-Com Changed India's Political Landscape | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...even first-years who can get in are thinking twice about frequenting an establishment whose red-and-white electric sign serves as a bullseye for city and state investigators, especially now that four of the students caught in the ABCC sting will face the Administrative Board next week...

Author: By Daniel K. Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City, State Hold Crimson Grille's Feet to Fire | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

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