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...twelve songs of Dog Man Star comprise a complicated orchestral departure from the band's first album, Suede. Due to a legal tiff, the band had to add the "London" to the more catchy zing of just Suede...

Author: By Coventry Edwards-pitt, | Title: Brit Band Suede Fails to Sway | 2/2/1995 | See Source »

...understands why Hank Brown has decided to make Sam Brown his nemesis. The Senator insists it is because Sam Brown isn't qualified and has no military experience. But other CSCE ambassadors had no military experience either. Some think Hank Brown simply wants to zing the President, refight the Vietnam War and triumph over an old rival. (Sam Brown was treasurer of Colorado; Hank Brown was a member of the state legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Public Eye: Is Brown Bagged? | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...Firm was one of those "it-kept-me-up-all-night" page turners for which there is no equivalent in movie hype. "I sat all the way through it" just doesn't have the same zing. But that is what to expect from the film of The Firm, which clocks in at 2 1/2 hours -- barely shorter than the audiocassette version of the novel. It's more bustle than brio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Arm of The Law | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

...capture America's sexual zeitgeist, Friday maintains that women's erotic fantasies spurn comfortable settings, clean sheets and non-felons in favor of German shepherds, enemas and shackles. The author may have intended to provide an aphrodisiac with her pseudoscientific survey, but it comes off with all the zing of an affidavit -- and one that lacks the ring of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jan. 13, 1992 | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...considerable amount of our psychic selves in our appearance. We're not all born beautiful, but we can make the most of what we've got. That's the art of style: improving on nature. Fashion helps us shape that sense of style, give it definition, freshness, sparkle, zing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Ode to a Tyrannical Muse (or Why I Love and Hate Fashion) | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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