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...Winners ANNA PAVLOVA And she's still skinny. Leading ballerina returns to Russia after 70-year absence?in an urn ALTHEA GIBSON Black '50s tennis champ gets her mug on cereal box. When will Ilie Nastase get his due? SIEGFRIED AND ROY Las Vegas illusionists and tiger fetishists sign lifetime contract. Is there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...stern father has just read a perfectly ghastly memorial poem to his dead mother. Now let's say the young man courting his daughter has just made a little joke about the urn on the dining-room mantle. It does not take a great comic mind to imagine that it contains grandma's remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Divine Foolishness | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...that young man with a bottle of cheap, celebratory Champagne. When he uncorks it, can you guess where the cork is going to fly? And what it must do to the precariously placed urn? If you have a taste for farce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Divine Foolishness | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...good, even empowering, to tell his doctors what the next step would be, rather than the other way around--even if the price was death. At his instruction, his mother and his sisters Twilia and Tammey promptly went to a local funeral home to select a casket and an urn. He trusts their taste better than his own, though he has decided to wear his white Chicago Bears sweater, one of his favorites, for the final visitation. For the service, he's compiled a tape of songs, starting with the Beatles' Let It Be and ending with Eric Clapton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Stories: In Their Last Days On This Earth | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...Among a string of strong fall performances for the women's team was a second-place finish in the Victorian Urn Trophy...

Author: By Stephanie Murg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Also on the Charles: Sailing Has Banner Year | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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