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"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. There?s no reason-able explanation of Alexandre Dumas. He was a rich man. We note with inter-est that he went bankrupt in the theater. He was a revolutionary. His grandfather was a marquis, his grandmother was a negress. [He was] the wildest romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Mercury, God of Radio | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

Which other artists did he resemble? Not many, it turns out. Miro, in brief flashes. You could think of Westermann's strand of buckeye Surrealism and make him out to be a wood-butchering cousin of Joseph Cornell's, except that he didn't have Cornell's haunted preciousness, his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Aesthete As Popeye | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

Despite 30 years of breakneck economic development, Malaysia remains a spirit-haunted land where, as Hairudin Harun of the University of Malaya notes, a recent survey showed that 90% of professionals said they had consulted spirit me-diums for marital, health or work-related problems. "Most of these (mediums) are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rites and Wrongs | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

It's a love borne of desperation. Since Japan's bubble economy kerploded in the early '90s, every indicator has plunged relentlessly downward. The stock market hit a 16-year low earlier this year. Real estate prices have plunged so far that many homeowners are stuck in houses they bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

Dominating the page was the man who, with atomic energy and electric-blue eyes that alternately charmed and haunted, had dominated every conversation he'd ever had. Einhorn wasn't on a weight-loss program back then. Cross a bear with a man, take away all grooming implements and you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Archive: The Ira Einhorn Case | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

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