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...think you've been misinformed," she replies with a knowing wink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Tales Of The Naked City | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...Blue Man Group is a milestone, probably the closest thing to avant-garde theater ever to make it in Vegas. The three original creators, Chris Wink, Phil Stanton and Matt Goldman, spent the first couple of months appearing in the show themselves (a whole cadre of new Blue Men have taken over in the group's three other companies), and seem unfazed by their encounter with the schlock-entertainment capital. It was Penn and Teller years ago who first suggested that the Blues take their show to Vegas. But they didn't seriously consider it until they began developing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pipe Dreams on the Strip | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...would see a steamboat slipping along in the dark, and now and then she would belch a whole world of sparks up out of her chimbleys, and they would rain down in the river and look awful pretty; then she would turn a corner and her lights would wink out and her powwow shut off and leave the river still again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bend In the River | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...Once they controlled the diamonds, the rebels had a major source of income with which they could acquire weaponry and build themselves up into a serious force. As late as 1997, the British government came under fierce domestic criticism over accusations that it had given a nod and wink to the elected government of Sierra Leone's practice of using the services of a British mercenary firm. Now, though, there are rumors that the government wants to bring back Executive Outcome, the South African mercenary firm that had protected the diamond fields. There are also rumors that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nightcap in the Killing Zone | 5/11/2000 | See Source »

...beckoned my girlfriend to bed, using my patented finger curl-wink-raised eyebrow-"Hey, seriously, would you please come over here for just a second?" thing that no woman has been able to resist. I held her close, removed this little piece of chicken from my teeth that had been bugging me all day and opened our Census envelope. All week I had longed for this moment when we could declare our love to the State, God and any compilers of statistical information. This was a declaration that, unlike marriage, could not be voided for at least 10 years. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take My Privacy, Please | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

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