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...singles have become a new arena for musicians to reinvent their work (rapper Busta Rhymes' single for his amusingly crazy song Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check contains three remixes of the main track), redo the songs of their idols (the Brit pop group Oasis, often accused of ripping off the Beatles, offers up a stale cover of I Am the Walrus on the single for its song Wonderwall) or perform out-of-character material (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony sweetly sing one of its hard-core rap songs on its single Tha Crossroads). Natalie Merchant, whose enchanting album Tigerlily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE RETURN OF THE B-SIDE | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...methodically," which is understandable. No owner wants to rush that enchanted period that makes red-ink publishing more rewarding than real estate, when a publisher gets to dangle one of the great prizes in American letters before the hungry eyes of the country's best journalists. Being able to woo and win Tina Brown as editor of the New Yorker is what makes losing money palatable for publishers such as S.I. Newhouse. "It's gratifying," says Peretz, who has dined with presidential adviser George Stephanopoulos, among others, "how many people want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON DIARY: THE NEW WAVE | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

Irene S. Ng '97 played the title role in "The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo," a show aimed primarily at children, that aired on the Nickelodeon network...

Author: By Kymberle J. Zielinski, | Title: Harvard Student Starring In New Nickelodeon Show | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...already filmed six episodes for the show, plays Shelby Woo, a 16-year-old detective who lives in Florida with her grandfather, played by Pat Morita of Karate Kid fame...

Author: By Kymberle J. Zielinski, | Title: Harvard Student Starring In New Nickelodeon Show | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

This lunch-hour version of car shopping has been catching on fast. Nine of the largest U.S. auto dealers formed a chain of superstores called Driver's Mart last month to woo back customers from outsiders like CarMax. In Madison, Wisconsin, dealer Jon Lancaster recently opened an outlet called CarAmerica, which he hopes will be the first in a chain of similar stores. "Fun, fun, fun," is how Madison police officer Susan Carnell describes her 90-minute visit to CarAmerica. Carnell drove off in a 1994 Nissan Pathfinder truck, whose $19,950 price was more than $2,000 below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUYING A CAR WITHOUT THE OLD HASSLES | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

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