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...distributor who operates from an undertaker's office. He sketches all the misfits he encounters with anthropological and sartorial precision, colorfully and poetically noting the red tarboosh of a Tigrean guard; the "sublime crease" of a servant's "beautiful putty trousers"; and a Greek engineer's soiled celluloid collar, "yellow and clouded as a clay pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Man of the Sea | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

Since Brokeback, he had been having general career success but personal distress. He had separated from Williams and had moved out of their sunny yellow Brooklyn home. At the same time he was receiving accolades for his performance in the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There and had completed filming his role as the Joker (a character Nicholson immortalized) in the new Batman movie The Dark Knight, a potential blockbuster. At the news of Ledger's death, Mel Gibson said, "I had such great hope for him. He was just taking off, and to lose his life at such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heath Ledger: Star in Distress | 1/22/2008 | See Source »

...Peyo's wife, Nine Culliford, who chose the color. "They couldn't be green - they would have vanished in the vegetation. Red would have been too flashy and yellow a bit unfortunate. Only blue was left!" she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smurfs Are Off to Conquer the World — Again | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

...driver, the easier (and cheaper) to offer both left- and right-hand versions when Tata Motors starts exporting the car to Southeast Asia and Africa in a couple of years. The top third of the over-sized headlights act as the turn signals (indicators) and look like cheeky yellow eyebrows above the main lights. It has a top speed of about 60 miles per hour. "Car companies are in probably the most emotive business area that one can find apart from fashion," company chairman Ratan Tata told TIME a day before the big launch. "There will be people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Cheapest Car | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

After hours of driving through southern Nepal, the Maoist cantonment proves remarkably easy to find. Red pennants adorn trees and street lamps along miles of dirt road that winds through rice paddies and fields of yellow mustard, ending by a sprawl of ramshackle enclosures and wood huts. There's little sign of military menace as goats and pigs loll around on grass knolls - that's before we near the sandbags of an outer bunker where a young woman in fatigues, who appears to be of school-going age, turns her machine gun in our direction and fixes us with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maoism Around the Campfire | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

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