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...Though he felt it was a mistake at the time, Alan W. Livingston, 91, brought the fledgling Beatles to the U.S. while president of Capitol Records. Some of his other nonmistakes include creating the Bozo the Clown character and co-writing the song "I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat," a musical dialogue between Tweety Bird and Sylvester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...teen meat. All eyes, hearts and prepubescent yearnings focus on him, and he gives it back, pleased to be watched, in true exhibitionist showmanship. A few songs into the set, he removes his jacket to reveal a sleeveless chartreuse T shirt and a golden physique, not over-muscled but taut and downy. (Look, I'm paid to observe these things.) When the guys go backstage to change shorts, Joe goes briefly topless, exposing a rivulet of hair from his navel to his briefs. He flashes a mock-stern look at the camera, but the shot is in the movie. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jonas Brothers Movie Review: Kids vs. Critic | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...entire gallery. But repulsion alone does not drive Hatry’s art. In a statement about her work, she compares sculpting animal parts for her images with a photographer’s preparation of a model for a photo shoot. The resulting portraits are eerily similar. The taut expressions of the pig-skin figures are reminiscent of faces fastened by Botox injections; the flesh-strip lips pucker like mouths making kissing motions at the camera. One portrait, “Crazy Broad,” which features a figure dressed in a fur coat and paparazzi-shielding glasses, could...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pig-Part Art in 'Heads' | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...have that key player in place, because you're also looking for differences. You're looking for different energy - I always think of it for some reason as people holding a quilt. Everybody's got hold of a different end, and they've really got to stretch it taut. You don't want two people who perform the same function...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Joss Whedon, creator of Dollhouse | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...supermodels) and now he has the world. Slater just won his ninth world title in surfing, making him both the youngest (in 1992, at age 20) and the oldest (now 36) surfing champion in history. His new book, Kelly Slater: For the Love, is a visual tour through the taut, tanned world of competitive surfing and how a young boy from Cocoa Beach, Florida rose to the top. Kelly Slater talks to TIME about surfing, his new world title and why he is always late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfer Kelly Slater | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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