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...genius of Ketchup is that its bouncy chorus--"Asereje ja de je de jebe tu de jebere seibunouva/Majavi an de buguni an de buididipi"--means the same thing in Spanish as in English: nothing. The words are a gibberish homage to the opening line of the first rap song, Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 hit Rapper's Delight. America's familiarity with the original incomprehensible lyrics--"I said a hip hop, the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you don't stop"--have fueled Ketchup's transatlantic voyage, while a simple six-step dance move has given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold the Fries | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

McCullough ended his speech by quoting Winston Churchill that, “We haven’t come this far because we’re made of sugar candy...

Author: By Sarah L. Bishop, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pulitzer Winner Promotes History | 10/30/2002 | See Source »

...Hong Kong branch of a foreign bank. That was before she decided that her brother, teen idol Edison Chen, was having way more fun than she was. Meetings were held, a contract was signed?and Chen popped out of the Hong Kong star-making microwave like a sugar-coated pineapple bun. Her first single, Future Tense, was released to local radio stations last month, and her debut album, a self-titled Canto-pop affair overlaid with R. and B. beats, will come out in early November. She has signed a deal to be in a movie directed by award-winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Star is Formed | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...billion. Indeed, new U.N. forecasts say China will pass the U.S. for the first time as the top recipient of foreign investment. Speedy Little Pill The European Parliament struck down an industry-backed measure that some feared would allow consumer advertising. But that medicine came with a spoonful of sugar: a bill to create the world's quickest drug approvals, cutting the wait from 18 months to about seven. Goodbye, Herbal Viagra? Unsolicited e-mail, or spam, is such a scourge that now even spammers are trying to stop it. The Direct Marketing Association, which once fought for e-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monti Feels the Revenge of the Merged | 10/27/2002 | See Source »

...even more." It is also much scarier. Like Rowling's books, the movies are becoming darker and more intense as they progress. (After several delays, Rowling, who says there will be seven Potter books in all, will deliver the fifth novel next year.) Running against the Hollywood tradition of sugar-coating every pill, Columbus is eager to let you know that your children may be very afraid. A presumably dead cat is hung in a Hogwarts hallway; Hogwarts students are frozen stiff ("petrified") by a monster; Harry and his sidekick Ron Weasley are attacked with surprising violence by a giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark Side of Potter | 10/27/2002 | See Source »

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