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...Magazine." He intended to call this imagined periodical SCOPE: THE SHOW-BOOK OF THE WORLD. For Rockefeller Center, at least, which today has no Time & Scope Building at the corner of 50th Street and 6th Avenue, it's a good thing that Luce and his colleague editors eventually settled upon LIFE--no subtitle, no embroidery...
Sydney meant fun and games for Venus and her kid sister Serena as they danced to the doubles crown, but it meant brutal pressure for a woman named Cathy Freeman, who opened the Games by ceremonially lighting the cauldron and then, with the weight of her country upon her, came through sensationally in her footrace to become the first Aboriginal Australian ever to win an individual gold medal...
...side to Eminem. In midsummer his estranged wife Kim, who had been vilified in one of her husband's songs and in the KIM: ROT IN PIECES tattoo that he wore on his torso, attempted suicide. The couple subsequently filed for divorce. Eminem's personal problems didn't intrude upon his months-long tour; in April, below, he wowed the crowd in Montreal...
...born in New York City. I live and work in New York City. And for as long as I can remember, New Yorkers have complained about the hordes of tourists that descend upon Manhattan during the holiday season...
...hard to remember now, when Snoopy and Charlie Brown dominate the blimps at golf tournaments instead of the comics in Sunday papers, that once upon a time Schulz's strip was the fault-line of a cultural earthquake. Garry Trudeau, creator of "Doonesbury," who came of age as a comic strip artist under Schulz's influence, thought of it as "the first Beat strip." Edgy, unpredictable, ahead of its time, "Peanuts" "vibrated with '50s alienation," Trudeau recalled. "Everything about it was different...