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...simpler, sunnier images. For Rain, Madonna dons demure black; the look says, ''Listen to the sad ballad, the sweet harmonies.'' For Express Yourself, she's dolled up in royal blue bell-bottoms and a frizz wig, to pay homage to the gaudy innocence of the Cyndi Lauper era. The Wayback Machine keeps spinning until we are in Weimar * Berlin, with Madonna in Dietrich drag warbling Teutonic twaddle: ''Like a wer- gin, touched for the werry vurst time.'' She is Carmen Miranda (Going Bananas), Gene Kelly (La Isla Bonita), the Brigitte Helm robot goddess from the silent film Metropolis. She saves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MADONNA GOES TO CAMP | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...still call it that, though they've lived far away for years, and have created new branches of the family they grew up in. This trip into the past may be pleasant or painful. But for most people, whether or not they are practicing Christians, the soundtrack of that wayback machine is Christmas music: the religious and secular tunes, the novelty songs and ballads. Grandma has spun these standards for a half century or more, replacing the 78s with LPs, then cassettes and now CDs. The formats change; the songs and feelings don't. Some time in the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 12 CDs of Christmas | 12/22/2006 | See Source »

FORGET ME NOT Where do old Web pages go to die? If they're lucky, the Internet Archive, a nonprofit project to preserve the history of the Web. The archive recently marked its fifth birthday by launching the Wayback Machine web.archive.org) Type any URL into this free service, and you can see what the page looked like in the old days (1996). The archive has already devoted a special collection to the Sept. 11 attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 12, 2001 | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

Brown did not crumble after the earlyonslaught. Instead, led by senior center KamalRountree, the Bears slowly began to claw their wayback into the game...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Hoopsters Repeat .500 Performance | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Sushant Srinivasan '98 said he was on his wayback from a chemistry exam yesterday morning whena friend told him that he and the other 13 membersof his blocking group had been assigned to AdamsHouse...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Housing Results Released | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

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