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...once had stable jobs like his. If he seeks solace at his favorite izakaya, or pub, he may find ridicule in the form of oyaji gals, young women who get their kicks by dressing in wrinkled men's suits and doing salaryman impressions: swilling beer, belching, picking their teeth. At home, when he kicks back in front of the TV, he's confronted with a Sapporo beer commercial featuring a superhero parody: a balding, potbellied man who dashes into perilous situations. Explains a Sapporo spokeswoman: "It's like cheering for the middle-aged man who has been depressed lately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruising for A Bruising | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...Build a Stairway to Paradise” or “Racing with the Moon.” The fox-trot, interspersed with waltzes, rhumbas, sambas, and jitterbug, was the popular rhythm. In those days, knowing how to dance was akin to knowing how to brush your teeth: you had been doing it regularly since you got your twelve-year-old molars...

Author: By Connaught O’CONNELL Mahony, CLASS OF 1952 | Title: Jolly-Ups and a 'New Look' at Radcliffe | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...whores, blond angels with diaphanous wings on the walls of the Church of San Antonio de la Florida--a conspectus, you might say, of every she-creature the eye could light on. And then, of course, there was the Queen, Maria Luisa, worn shapeless by 20 pregnancies, with her teeth as bad as George Washington's and her glowing arms, of which she was so irrationally proud that she forbade other women to wear long gloves at court so their arms would be seen to be less beautiful than hers, which perhaps they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Goya's Women | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...also demand their $4.99 back from her own Playboy spread. (Isn't doing that supposed to boost one's career?) Remember, everyone, wrestling is not fake, it's staged. And the the end of this match, Buttafuoco will be mumbling the same while he's picking up his teeth. Fearless Prediction: Chyna in Round 3 Links: • Joanie Laurer's official site • PEOPLE catches up with Joey Buttafuoco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready to, um, Rumble | 5/21/2002 | See Source »

...wood." That's why Cianci can't understand the strategy employed by another high-profile politician defendant, Ohio Congressman James Traficant, convicted in April of bribery, racketeering and fraud. "He's the guy who represented himself," Cianci says. "That's like a dentist trying to pull his own teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Buddy Beat The Rap? | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

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