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...valuable sports franchise and a listed company. Glazer, a billionaire businessman who lives in Florida, now owns just under 17% of the Reds. The team brought in a world-best $289 million last season, according to Deloitte & Touche, topping the New York Yankees' $280 million in revenues. The notably unglib Glazer won't tip his next play, but he's up against a pair of other big Man U shareholders, Irish tycoons John Magnier and J.P. McManus. The two have recently increased their combined stake to about 29%. "It's extremely unlikely someone would buy the team," says Andrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Briefing: Mar 22, 2004 | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

Forbes has the most distinctive campaign style of anyone in the field, which is to say none. It is all his handlers can do to get him to unclasp his hands. There's not a chance he'll loosen his tie. He is devoutly unglib, though a fluid speaker who uses no notes. However remote he may seem from their life and experiences, people say he seems honest and authentic, someone who doesn't stare over your shoulder when he's talking to see who has come into the room. "You ask him a question, and he doesn't build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: KNOCK 'EM FLAT | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...possesses before being penalized for what it lacks. Truman Capote's tale of a bordello life full of genteel pretensions, and with far more high style than low instincts, has a nice rococo playfulness. Harold Arlen's score is attractive and unified, the songs delicate and unglib. About it all there hovers-despite no great amount of overt comedy-a sense of the humorous, and through it all move some excellent performers. Pearl Bailey can safely say almost anything, she looks so girlish, or do almost anything, she does it so gracefully. As the ingenue who finds love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Jan. 10, 1955 | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

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