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...three-piece Gel-e Gardening Essentials set, $25 at oxo.com (a second trowel isn't shown), features the company's trademark nonslip-handle design. Kitchen utensils and barware are cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Shopping Guide: For The Gardener | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...hair brushed forward and an unusually round face, wore blue cotton work clothes and spoke passable English. The two men exchanged greetings. The man was "a bit strange," Midgely says, "not ominously strange, just as if he were a bit wacky." He carried a red plastic bag containing a trowel and bits of chicken that he claimed were for feeding the birds and dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killer Among Us | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

...clifftops above the Dead Sea, Ron Dubay sifted the dust through a small sieve and found two tiny fragments of bone. Then he heard his partner Dennis Walker shout, "Whoa! We got something here." Walker's trowel held three vertebrae. Fighting their excitement, the researchers from California State University at Long Beach carefully dusted away for two days, finding skull fragments and the brittle, broken remains of at least one human body. Last week their conclusions about the find started an archaeological battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bones of Contention | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...Food Lodging) highlights four young women in the episodic Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life. For them, romantic yearning is like an image of lovers on a drive-in movie screen: huge and fleeting. The film has too many slow spots, and its message is laid on with a trowel, but it has a kind of perverse Hollywood glamour. When the camera holds on the gorgeous, thoughtful faces of Marlo Marron and Salma Hayek, beauty becomes truth -- the repository of hope and despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: The Little Movies That Could | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...were bigger than life, from the days when young Federico came from Rimini to Rome, sketching caricatures on Via Veneto tablecloths. And so in his later films, faces are pressed against the window of the camera lens; people talk too loud or too much; makeup is applied with a trowel; actors are encouraged to go over the top, to skywrite their emotions on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ringmaster and Clown: Federico Fellini (1920-1993) | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

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