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...accident. In 1991, seven years after This Is Spinal Tap, the band put out its own black album. A year later, lead singer James Hetfield was nearly immolated onstage by some bad pyro. Metallica has even committed the ultimate sin of heavy-metal piety: the classical album, with the sheepish help of some cellists in the San Francisco Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hair-Losing Head Bangers | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...leave awful enough alone. They may be playing bad singers, but they're bound to make good music (composed and performed by the cast and collected on a terrific CD). Old folkies will spot the genres being guyed. Others will enjoy little frissons, like Guest's literally sheepish tenor (he baas his lyrics). The rest can just happily hum along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outfolking the Folkies | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

Given the challenge he faces in launching a new department in the midst of war and mushrooming deficits, Ridge has stayed upbeat. He has tried to shrug off the late-night barbs aimed at the department's color-coded alerts and duct-tape tutorials. A sheepish but good-humored Ridge finally said last week that "we do not want individuals or families to start sealing their doors or their windows," adding that "there may come a time" when authorities recommend that Americans do so. Undaunted by criticism that the White House may be needlessly frightening the public, Ridge plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State Of Our Defense | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...highly-touted forward from Shawnee High School in New Jersey, Zach Martin is deceivingly disarming. With a crooked smile and a sheepish grin, Martin betrays the image of a boy on Christmas morning...

Author: By David Mu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard's rookie marksman aims high | 11/20/2002 | See Source »

...night when we were out dancing, we went to a gay bar by MIT and ran into some underage undergrads from the house,” Coontz said. “Some looked very sheepish, but one was so wasted that he came up to her and started dancing. She was very cool about it, but she decided that maybe it was not such a good idea to go to clubs so close to the House...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spirited Adams Tutor, 48, Dies | 11/15/2002 | See Source »

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