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...irony is that these comedy wanna-bes are already like him. In the end, that is really Beat's appeal. The jokes, sure, make people laugh. The cool tough guy, sure, people find sexy. But beneath the crafted image is an everyman that Japanese males would like to see when they peer into a mirror. "Takeshi's machismo is kind of nostalgic for many men," says Yoko Tajima, a professor of English literature and women's studies who appears on his TV Tackle show. "But his real strength is that he never forgets his starting point. He is a loser...
...Jackson Community Center for a Bob-Hope style troop show. Those who came got a bellyful of junk food and a lineup bristling with both has-beens (Honky Tonk Man, Doink the Clown, the latest incarnation of The Patriot, if you follow that sort of thing) and never-will-bes...
...painted with scenes of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, including Isis, Osiris, Horus and Anubis. Still others were placed in so-called anthropoid coffins--pottery sarcophagi with human faces--and a few were only wrapped in linen. Bracelets, amulets, statues of mourning ladies, pottery vessels and figurines of Bes, whom Hawass describes as "the dwarf god of pleasure and fun," were interred with the bodies...
Everybody does it. No, not that. Nearly every-one on campus, with the exception of a few longhaired hippie wanna-bes, has a haircut now and then. Around the Square and in Boston, both men and women flock to the meccas of style in search of that sexy shag or dope ducktail--though men seemed less likely to 'fess up to their vanity...
...that vacation feeling? FM recommends you still go to an occasional lecture--just work during the day and play at night. Or you can go high-ball. For all the final club kid wanna-bes out there, locate your seersucker suit and French cuffs `cause punching season starts up next week. This go round, selection is very exclusive so consider yourself honored if, next week, you end up sipping Bloody Mary's in a fenced-off garden...