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...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 »

...Utopia - Alaska - and Rio) were screwy, all right, but pretty shrewd as character comedy of a high, broad stripe. With the help of their writers, Crosby and Hope perfected two hardy comic types: Bing the lordly overdog, smart and charming enough to get other folks to volunteer for the sucker's game; and Bob the scruffy underdog, too used to losing, too stubborn to give up. Bing was Bugs to Bob's Daffy; Dean Martin to his Jerry; Bill Murray to Hope's Martin Short; and, in "The Mask" and "Me, Myself & Irene," Jim Carrey to Jim Carrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby: Bing Goes to the Movies | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...then Gore hit his silent rival with the statesmanship sucker punch. "Now, second, I propose that Governor Bush and I meet personally, one-on-one, as soon as possible, before the vote count is finished, not to negotiate, but to improve the tone of our dialogue in America." Not only before the outcome, but afterward too, wherever Bush wants, so that the pair can "unite the country behind the winner as soon as this process is completed." Get it? Unite, not divide? Fade out: They walk arm in arm into the sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Gambit, Bush's Brush-Off | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...then Gore hit his silent rival with the statesmanship sucker punch. "Now, second, I propose that Governor Bush and I meet personally, one-on-one, as soon as possible, before the vote count is finished, not to negotiate, but to improve the tone of our dialogue in America." Not only before the outcome, but afterward too, wherever Bush wants, so that the pair can "unite the country behind the winner as soon as this process is completed." Get it? Unite, not divide? Fade out: They walk arm in arm into the sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Gambit, Bush's Brush-Off | 11/14/2000 | See Source »

...head so she's staring down the guy in the white pickup. A rookie mistake, maybe. So many poachers have been bagged, they're taking a closer look now, and this guy just got wise to us. He hits the gas and disappears. No problem. We're on Sucker Creek Road after all. I crouch. I adjust my dreadlocks. Next guy down the road is mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bambi's Got A Little Secret | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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