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...Kick in a dollar, you'll get three cups." He looks at Carrie. "I'll let you swill for free, though...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: CRLS.: The Kids Next Door | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...some of rock's finer chestnuts. Opening with a Rolling Stones medley, the former Ms. Arnold interpreted Satisfaction in ways Mick Jagger surely never intended and with a refreshing indifference to melody. She screeched her way through My Generation and I Wanna Be Sedated, pausing only to eat chocolate, swill beer and swear, charming the young crowd with her atonal exuberance. If only TV viewers were so readily impressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 11, 1999 | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...Dave Sanders bled to death after directing kids to safety. And we're supposed to think gun buyers can't endure a little red tape, a little delayed gratification in making their purchase? Without guns, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were menacing misfits in trench coats feasting on Internet swill. With guns, they became merciless mass murderers. We're hungry for a politician who can stand up to the gun lobby and convince it that burying Isaiah Shoels last Thursday in the graduation gown he would have worn to his commencement this month is unacceptable in a civilized society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Outrage That Will Last | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

Singapore: Raffles Hotel, early 1942. The colonial swells are having a party--black ties, a ricky-ticky dance band lulling them with torpid tunes. As they swill their bubbly, they mutter contempt for the advancing Japanese army in smug racist terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE ROAD TOO WELL TRAVELED | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...although the scale of his actual artistic achievements certainly did. Sanders won considerable popularity in his own right with albums that appealed to flower children and funkers alike, albums with names like "Karma" and "Evolution." In a sense, Sander's aesthetic was very similar to the transcendental early Seventies swill that stood on the corpse of acoustic jazz in the 1960's, althoughhis music was generally much more interesting andsoulful. In recent years, Sanders has achievedsuccess within the more narrowly defined world ofstraight-ahead jazz, employing his molten-leadtone and tastefully applied screams in effectiveversions of jazz standards...

Author: By Eric D. Plaks, | Title: A Soulful 'Pharoah' Seeks to Please | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

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