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...Humor is central to many of the works, often as a neo-surrealist celebration of the absurd. Edward Ruscha's can of Spam rocketing across a white canvas and Colin Self's Leopard-skin Nuclear Bomber - No. 2 cannot fail to evoke a smile. Conversely, Roy Lichtenstein manages to take the humor out of the comic-book genre, reducing the style to its purely graphic elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art Goes Pop | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...Bush's Tuesday remarks left some old China hands dismayed. "You don't want to talk about harming the relationship until you know what sort of harm you may be inflicting," said J. Stapleton Roy, who was ambassador to Beijing under Bush's father and a top U.S. diplomat under Clinton. "I think it does reflect a certain amount of inexperience when you make statements like that." Roy blamed Bush's tone on Administration officials "who are unrealistic in their expectations of how China should behave in these circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Face | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...between cunning idiocies about the title "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (he said it "sounds like something Siegfried and Roy do on vacation"), Martin addressed a generic suspicion about Hollywood. "Eight hundred million people," he said, "are thinking the same thought: that we're all gay." If so, it's because the publicity on the stars' gowns has turned much of the Oscar Night audience into Mr. Blackwells: What are these beautiful people wearing and how awful do they look? And, this year: How can they go to so much trouble finding chic clothes but forget to apply a little mousse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crouching Traffic, Hidden Winner | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...auditioning for I Know Why the Caged Girl Sings b) Is protesting the treatment of tigers by Ringling Bros. c) Built a cage from the inside d) Is trying to turn either Siegfried or Roy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Mar. 26, 2001 | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

SIEGFRIED & ROY Duo agree not to disappear from Mirage before 2004. Unless the lions get lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 12, 2001 | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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