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...Mount Rose, Minn., to document its annual Sara Rose Cosmetics(R)(c)[TM] Miss Teen Princess America Pageant. And this time it's personal. The local doyen (Kirstie Alley) is ready to kill, really, to ensure that her daughter Becky (Denise Richards) will win over trailer-park cutie Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst). Got all the movie references? Here is a mockumentary (Waiting for Guffman, The Blair Witch Project) about a high school contest (Smile, Election) set among the funny-talking rubes of rural Minnesota (Fargo or every third episode of Mystery Science Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Pageant To Die For | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...food source, in significantly harmful quantities? Some other questions: Does the pollen travel during the same period that the monarchs feed on the milkweed? How much milkweed is near cornfields as opposed to other areas? And can Bt corn be modified further? Clearly the Cornell study has flashed an amber light, but before it turns to red, says Bjerklie, "more investigation is needed." For the moment, he reports, "most plant and insect ecologists believe this will turn out to be a solvable problem." The findings, though, are yet another reminder of the minute interdependence of our world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uh-Oh! Altered Corn and Butterflies Don't Mix | 5/20/1999 | See Source »

...world is in danger of losing the Sun Crest peach. Extravagantly juicy with a nectar that perfectly balances acids and sugars, it boasts a yellow skin with an amber glow. But because it is soft and easily bruised, it is unattractive to supermarkets, which prefer hearty produce bred to travel well and languish indefinitely. Grown in California's San Joaquin Valley, the Sun Crest is picked only in midsummer and sold primarily at roadside stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Savor the Peach | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...program featured a wide-mix of dance and music styles, giving even the most dance-illiterate audience member a general idea of the broad scope and long tradition of dance. "Pas de Quarter," the first piece on the program, spotlighted a lovely quartet of rose-bedecked ballerinas drenched in amber light and shimmering in pale pink tutus. To the lilting, romantic strains of Cesare Pugin's 18th century composition, four renowned (and infamously conceited) ballerinas of the past were recreated in all their beauty and gracious snobbery on the stage by four equally-beautiful Harvard undergraduate ballerinas. On Saturday night...

Author: By Erin Billinges, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PERPETUAL MOTIOBN: | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...program featured a wide-mix of dance and music styles, giving even the most dance-illiterate audience member a general idea of the broad scope and long tradition of dance. "Pas de Quartre," the first piece on the program, spotlighted a lovely quartet of rose-bedecked ballerinas drenched in amber light and shimmering in pale pink tutus. To the lilting, romantic strains of Cesare Pugni's 18th century composition, four renowned (and infamously conceited) ballerinas of the past were recreated in all their beauty and gracious snobbery on the stage by four equally-beautiful Harvard undergraduate ballerinas. On Saturday night...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Perpetual Motion: An Evening of Time, Money, and | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

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