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...Mother and son are close. People often think they're a couple because she looks so young at 42, with her taut muscles and sleek pageboy. "You know what he did while he was with the Army in Germany?" she asks mischievously. "He was dancing, stripping, under the name Scissor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War Ages A Roguish Son | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...John Lennon, in 1966, Ono had been part of the group of New York musicians and artists who would call themselves Fluxus, pioneers of conceptual and performance art. For her 1964 Cut Piece, Ono sat onstage at Carnegie Hall while audience members came up one by one to scissor off pieces of her clothes. Her "instruction paintings" of 1961 were just typed directives like WATCH THE SUN UNTIL IT BECOMES SQUARE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Her Own Image | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...career of her own, played up to her potential, which she failed to do against the Crimson the first time around. She set the Ivy three-point mark in the first half and connected on 8-of-16 from three-point land for the game while using an unorthodox scissor-kick shot. Her Ivy career ended with 145 treys, eclipsing the old mark...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Banged-up Crimson Run into Banghart | 3/8/2000 | See Source »

Maybe 360 [degree] scissor kicks get boring after a while. Whatever the reason, Darcy LaPier, fourth wife of action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, has filed for divorce--again. The two were wed in 1994. She filed for divorce later that year but changed her mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1996 | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...flaying of celebrities like Gifford and Jordan made it easy to miss the point. For years children have been sold as slaves, blinded or maimed for crying or rebelling or trying to return home, ill-fed, bone-weary, short-lived. They file the scissor blades, mix the gunpowder for the firecrackers, knot the carpets, stitch the soccer balls with needles longer than their fingers. Human-rights groups guess there may be 200 million children around the world, from China to South America, working full time--no play, no school, no chance. All of which raises the question, once the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAUSE CELEB | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

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