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...there you have the minister of information in a country recognized by no other, engaged in a vicious tug-of-war with a live lion over a dead, stuffed-with-straw lion that appeared ready to come apart at any moment. Pretty much like Somalia itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, That is a Lion Biting the Minister... | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...headed up to Connecticut's Stafford Motor Speedway to meet Dennis Anderson, the man who built Grave Digger in 1981 and still drives it whenever his shoulder is attached to his body. He told me he had started out "mudboggin' and tug-o-warrin'" four-wheel drives. I didn't understand most of what Dennis said. After sitting down for a brief conversation, he told me my monster-truck name should be Powder Puff Boy. Then he punched me in the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...simple, but most impressive touch, was the placement of Saul, the producer and catalyst of strife, played by Brian Gatten ’01, between the two brothers as they pulled him in a verbal tug...

Author: By Jeremy W. Blocker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: True West Intense Yet Unrealized | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...making it in showbiz, for the privilege of being blessed with drop-dead looks and boundless energy, she has been paying her dues for too long. Though she made just two soft-core sex movies, porn doesn't want to give her up: sex, or at least the tug of it in a character, defines nearly all of the roles she has played. She wants to do more acting?real acting, not just flaunting her face in ads, or her neck-snapping body in thinly disguised erotic films. But she has been trapped by her success?and by her adviser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shu Perstar! | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...FRITZ ZWICKY when: 1936 what he did: Noted that the orbits of distant galaxies were impossible without the gravitational tug of some sort of "dark matter." The idea was ridiculed; now it is mainstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Important Discoveries in Cosmology | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

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