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...smugness has a certain hilarious pungency. He records the time in London toward the end of the war when a V-1 bomb fell close by; everyone else in his office fell to the floor, but as a coworker's journal noted, "Arthur... boldly looked out the window." Mr. Toad was brave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rich Circularity | 11/1/2000 | See Source »

...Gore, widely thought to be brainy - ostentatiously brainy, as smart as Mr. Toad - suffers from a sort of stupidity of character. It could be the pressure of the campaign. But he has seemed off for a long time now, like an untuned engine - unsocialized, unmodulated, the adjustments wrong on the carburetor. Why does he run around like that? Unsafe at any speed, you might say. Americans know how to listen to an engine, and the something-not-quite-right that they hear in Gore's accounts for the trouble he's in now. Call "Car Talk" and discuss the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Race Like 1960, Only a Lot More Stupid | 11/1/2000 | See Source »

...fairness doctrine demands a list of cool stuff. Marsden, Janssen and Berry reward any viewer's long gaze. Toad (Ray Park), a bad mutant, makes quick use of his mile-long tongue. A dozen red roses for the blue lady Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos); this morph magician is the best weird woman in s-f movies since Daryl Hannah's android in Blade Runner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Where's The Wow Factor? | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...pain is located south of the ankles, and as a result, much of my life is spent in the quest for a decent pair of shoes. I live in hope. I pause at shoe-store windows and grow glassy-eyed. My sons find the effect mildly hilarious. The Mr. Toad of footwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Stinks How We've Gone Mad for Crazy Shoes | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...tking me out agn, u lousy toad? ive nvr hd a pistachio milkshk. i dnt know if my asian digestv tract cn tk it. wat do u think...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

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