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...small dinner tables with the running-back grace of a Gale Sayers. He?s as tall as you?d expect (6ft.1) but much slimmer, in a dark, pin-striped suit, pink shirt, rose-colored tie. He announces his list of cabaret don?ts and dos: ?1. Don?t suck. 2. Do it as if you were entertaining in your living room.? Stokes? sucklessness ia a given; and the only format here is informality. It?s as if we?re in the shank of a swank dinner party, and one of the guests is persuaded to sing, and he sings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Stoked! | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...Anticipated), Niandi (Brother Wanted), and so on. After a coupling with Pastor Malloy, an ineffectual Swedish missionary, she finally produces a son, yellow-haired Jintong (Golden Boy), who is the book's narrator. Selfish and indulgent, Jintong remains breast-fed until well into his teens. "Do you plan to suck until you reduce me to a piece of dry kindling?" asks his exasperated mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Up Half the Sky | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the money-obsessed Deng Xiaoping era, Jintong's feisty sisters are killed off by war and other masculine misdeeds. And, as in other Mo Yan novels, peasants suffer and bleed while Communist functionaries strut, blunder and suck the country dry as Jintong's mother's breasts. The lad survives, though not without 15 years in prison, three in a mental institution and nearly a lifetime in thrall to his mammary fixation. "Whenever I saw a beautiful breast, my mouth would fill with saliva," he confesses. That weakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Up Half the Sky | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...biggest problem with giving more money to state parties is that some of them just suck. While activists in Montana miraculously elected a Democratic Governor in a Republican year, the Democratic Party in Michigan is facing questions about a missing $2.5 million from the 2004 election. One of the only ways the DNC can force state parties to spend money responsibly and effectively is to hold on tight to the purse strings. When the DNC needs to run a national campaign, working with the state parties can be like herding cats. If Dean gives the states more autonomy, he might...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon, | Title: Democracy for Democrats | 2/9/2005 | See Source »

...them. The franchise is one of the few remaining to have its own old school fight song: “Fly Eagles Fly,” is the defining chant of Philadelphia, and it is so far superior to the mean-spirited and vindictive “Yankees Suck!” of Boston as to make comparison between the two insulting. Eagles fans have remained unbelievably loyal over the past 44 years of disappointment since the Eagles last won the NFL title, a championship earned so long ago that the it was not yet called the Super Bowl...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis, | Title: Fly, Eagles, Fly | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

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