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...other direction. Suits that were spare and sleek were also impeccably cut in plush fabrics. The unifying notion was the acknowledgment that just as for some women, there are men who appreciate and enjoy wearing well-made, chic clothing for their own edification, not that of their boss or wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Androgyny | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

...didn't know that for days.") Industrial Light & Magic, his band of cybergeeks back in Los Angeles, hasn't finished its computer shots--because ILM is still building the computers. The 20th Century Fox board of directors is sending unhelpful memos (e.g., the Wookie should wear pants). The Fox boss, Alan Ladd Jr., has insisted that the last two weeks of principal shooting be done in one manic week. And the frail 32-year-old with a galaxy of ideas in his head seems near implosion. As Mark Hamill recalls, "He really looked like he was ready to burst into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DVDS: The Star Treatment | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...court overturned a 1998 conviction for sodomy that led to his removal from office and triggered a major political crisis; in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Once considered the heir apparent to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who retired last year, Anwar maintained that he was being persecuted for having crossed his former boss. When Mahathir fired him in 1998, Anwar led thousands in protests demanding democratic reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 13, 2004 | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...fragrant Cantal, "like soft Cheddar, with a hint of athlete's foot." As a prose stylist, Clarke can't hold a cheese knife to legions of past Anglo-Saxon observers like Mark Twain and Janet Flanner (or even to Mayle). But Merde has a lively plot - West's French boss is up to no good - plus an element missing in many such tomes: sex. The hero's success in learning to separate politesse from a French woman's true intentions is instructive, as are his graphic descriptions of the rewards. How much of the book is autobiographical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Literary Hoax-en-Paris | 9/12/2004 | See Source »

...court overturned a 1998 sodomy conviction that led to his removal from office and a major political crisis; in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Once considered the heir apparent to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who retired last year, Anwar maintained that he was being persecuted for having crossed his former boss. When Mahathir fired him in 1998, Anwar had led tens of thousands in demanding democratic reform, in the largest demonstrations Malaysia had seen in decades. DISMISSED. Sexual-assault charges against KOBE BRYANT, 26, basketball star; after the woman who accused him of rape declined to testify against him; in Eagle, Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/9/2004 | See Source »

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