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...market for a navigation product, the Blackbird certainly holds its own against competition from Garmin, TomTom, Magellan and soon, Sony and Mio. But if you want to get your $750 worth, you had better be ready to upgrade (via Web download or CD-ROM) this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alpine Blackbird Portable In-Car Navigator | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

...swarmed around three British Saladin armored cars, throwing rocks, bottles and homemade bombs. The Saracens careened through glass-littered streets, occasionally shooting rubber bullets from slits in their armor. Their arrival after nightfall was greeted by a din of children's warning whistles. Groups of women beat out tomtom rhythms with garbage cans to protest the army's presence-and the British failure to challenge the Protestant "nogo" areas set up by the militant Ulster Defense Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Proves on the Run | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...news, Dia sent rifle-carrying police into the chamber, ordered it dissolved. But Senghor called in his own band of paratroops; they promptly surrounded Dia in his administration building. When the frantic Premier attempted to speak through a loudspeaker, a pro-Senghor mob drowned him out by playing thundering tomtom records, full-blast. At last, Dia surrendered, and was led away to captivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senegal: Friends Fall Out | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...Tomtoms, Teddies. Harold Minsky, 48, is the first to admit that his Follies at the International, a Broadway nightclub, is not classic burlesque. Its bumps have been shock-absorbed into harmless thank -you-ma'ams, and its grinds are exceeding fine. But only a purist could carp: it is a spectacularly busty pageant, flashily costumed, dizzyingly aswarm with near-nude (pasties here and here, a twinkly bikini there) show girls. If it owes a greater debt to the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas than to Minsky's old National Winter Garden theater on Houston Street, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burlesque: This Must Still Be the Place | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...dyed white for her role in the Jean Anouilh play, Time Remembered, headed north from Mexico City, was met in Los Angeles by something only a mother could love: her 19-year-old son, Cinemactor James MacArthur, and his hair-razed redskin haircut, done for his role in the tomtom drama, The Light in the Forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 9, 1957 | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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