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...smile at his take on bad romances And moisten at his love poems to Frances. One couplet I'm so adamant to save, I might have it engraved upon my grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Ode to Ogden | 8/22/2002 | See Source »

...tight seven-and-a-half-minute nationally televised thank-you speech to the American people that was, Clinton insisted with an odd redundance, his last speech "from the Oval Office as your president" (will he sneak back in while Bush is in Europe?), the eyes did not moisten. The lip did not quiver. The naked love of politics did not leap from his face as it did during his valedictory in Los Angeles, or during his dozen other farewells this year (he'll be saying good-bye again by radio Saturday only hours before Bush is sworn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hasta la Vista, Baby | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...Lafite and a 1945 Chateau Mouton Rothschild, as well as some of the finest and rarest young wines--bottles that an investor can bet will collect a premium at the year 3000 auctions. Just paging through the Sotheby's catalog (it's available online at www.sothebys.com is enough to moisten oenophilic palates. One evident specialty of the collector was assembling "vertical" collections of a single vineyard over many years. Sotheby's estimates that a rare collection of Australian Penfolds Grange from 1951 to 1992 will sell for more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Department of Wealth: The $200 Sip | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...held in bondage. Inside every princess is the clock of decay, which ticks remorselessly until she loses her looks, her grace, everything but her love -- you can read that in the eyes. In Peter's eyes too. They course with anger when he feels he has lost Rita; they moisten in awe when he finds his love in a most unexpected place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Frog Princess | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...strand of pearls clings to her red TIME T shirt and beads of perspiration moisten her brow, but the figure crouched behind home plate is meticulous and imperturbable. Even on the diamond as catcher for TIME's softball team, Chief of Research Betty Satterwhite Sutter exudes the calm presence that she carries through hectic workdays. "I've been playing softball since I was eleven," says Satterwhite, who once won the team's most-improved-player award. "It helps me feel young. Besides, the camaraderie on our team, with people you work and play with, carries over into the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jul. 13, 1987 | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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