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...head-butting a NBA referee. The suit is tailored to accentuate Rodman's tattoos in the most obvious way: the sleeves are cut off." Although all the attention is an advertiser's dream come true, it's also a commuter's nightmare. Bigsby & Kruthers CEO Gene Silverberg may yank the advertisement, but not before repainting Rodman's hair brilliant red to match the color he's chosen for his return to the Bulls Tuesday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rodman Reroutes | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

...head-butting a NBA referee. The suit is tailored to accentuate Rodman's tattoos in the most obvious way: the sleeves are cut off." Although all the attention is an advertiser's dream come true, it's also a commuter's nightmare. Bigsby & Kruthers CEO Gene Silverberg may yank the advertisement, but not before repainting Rodman's hair brilliant red to match the color he's chosen for his return to the Bulls Tuesday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rodman Reroutes | 4/3/1996 | See Source »

...head-butting a NBA referee. The suit is tailored to accentuate Rodman's tattoos in the most obvious way: the sleeves are cut off." Although all the attention is an advertiser's dream come true, it's also a commuter's nightmare. Bigsby & Kruthers CEO Gene Silverberg may yank the advertisement, but not before repainting Rodman's hair brilliant red to match the color he's chosen for his return to the Bulls Tuesday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rodman Reroutes | 4/2/1996 | See Source »

...painfully memorable day this spring Jack Reese did a crazy dance in the middle of a persimmon grove on his farm in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Flailing wildly, he tried to yank off his pants and swat his ankles at the same time. He had made one of the worst mistakes a Southern farmer can make: he forgot to watch the ground for a moment and thus tromped on a foot-high mound full of fire ants. Incensed by the intrusion, the insects promptly swarmed up Reese's legs, stinging him mercilessly over and over again. It felt like dozens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTS IN OUR PANTS | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...message. The ranks of conservative Christians, Reed said, are now "too large, too diverse, too significant to be ignored by either major political party." Not long ago, America's Christian right was dismissed as a group of pasty-faced zealots, led by divisive televangelists like Jerry Falwell, who helped yank the Republican Party so far to the right that moderates were frightened away. But Reed has emerged as the movement's fresh face, the choirboy to the rescue, a born-again Christian with a fine sense of the secular mechanics of American politics. His message, emphasizing such broadly appealing themes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO RALPH REED | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

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