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...laughing as he recounts how his TV team once put a plastic bag over a man's face and shoved his head into a cage to watch, up close, a mongoose fight a poisonous viper. And then there's the matador story. In this TV sketch, a pick-up truck decorated to look like a bull charges a matador. "Can I run the matador over?" the driver asked. Beat's quick response: "That would be funny." Beat thrives on humor as public humiliation, but also as a refuge from the rigid social strictures of Japan. "I was sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beat Goes On | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...would object. After half an hour the men calm down but the boss still isn't happy. Slowly, Chay starts to talk, glancing at his boss regularly. "The network is huge," Chay says. The weapons he buys are stored in warehouses on the Thai-Cambodian border, then moved by truck to Burma or other destinations. "Usually my trucks don't even get stopped for checks. It's easy to bribe people. Who does not want money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns and Money | 2/11/2001 | See Source »

...fire engine, a Jam'n 94.5 radio truck, state troopers on horseback and about a dozen middle-aged men on mopeds turned out for the parade. The Harvard-Radcliffe Band played, four couples from the Harvard Ballroom team danced and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance company--sporting pink hooded shirts and wings--blew bubbles at the crowd...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Roasts Drew Barrymore | 2/9/2001 | See Source »

...when I heard the news on Monday that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman had parted ways, I waited for the denial. Cruise's formidable publicist, Pat Kingsley, will be all over this one, I thought. She'll run down those rumors like a redneck in a pickup truck, hitch 'em dead to the back and drag them down Sunset Boulevard. And then came the shocking report over the Associated Press wire, with Kingsley confirming the awful truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Line One: Hollywood | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

...need to get your hands on a 53-passenger school bus with hydraulic brakes and a six-cylinder diesel engine. Or a 1998 Ford monster truck called Wizard that will let you "give rides all day, crush cars all night." Or four pawnshops--plus a half interest in three check-advance businesses--spread across western Kentucky. Where would you start to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: eBay's Bid to Conquer All | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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