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...Whatever Greenspan's private rationale - we'll get the minutes eventually - a course of sorts has been set: Until the Fed sees a tangible sign that the U.S. consumer is turning sullen, the Fed will stick to gradualism and the markets are on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Greenspan | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

...scanning him from head to crotch. Other Max attributes were once the prerogative of heroic males: a gravity, a radiating inner ache; a past and a quest. She's lonely on top, flirting with potential mates but searching for a mother. In this sense she is a big sullen sister to Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, the Powerpuff Girls. They too are the spawn of a biological experiment. (They also levitate, like the "Tiger" women.) And though the show is perky, and its pace frenetic, the Girls carry the burden of others' expectation. When things go wrong, the Townsville adults chant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead, Make Her Day | 3/18/2001 | See Source »

...because he has refocused national attention on the sullen, confused kids who skulk around our schools, harboring grudges and entertaining violent demons, and has forced us to ask sickeningly familiar, unflattering questions about our country and our societal obsession with violence, Charles "Andy" Williams is our person of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles 'Andy' Williams | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...were more of those concentric circles. At the center of one you could discover Mark McGrath, the singer with Sugar Ray (the group that had that catchy song and video about a girlfriend with a four-post bed). He was good-natured and goofy, not privy to the Be-Sullen school of rock singer aesthetics. I inquired about his musical heroes. He named a few, and when I asked him if he was a Beatles fan his eyes lit up and he said "Psycho," which I took to be a positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Circle Game | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

...deed without getting whacked around by Donnie, the inbred ingrate. When she complains to a cop about him, the cop offers this blithe appraisal: "He's high-strung." No more so than the script, by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson; it is given to violent outbursts amid its sullen patches, and plot twists that don't strain plausibility so much as ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Twelve Films Of Christmas | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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