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...like coming this close to your dreams, and then watch them brush past you like a stranger in a crowd," Burt Lancaster, as Graham, says of his moment in the majors...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Stealing Dreams | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...Gilligan's Island" and The Perfect Storm, Ogletree, his elderly father-in-law, a former student, a seasoned captain and other passengers lost power to their engine, received an unexpected helping hand, weathered a severe storm and ultimately had a brush with death...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law School Professor Rescued At Sea | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

...sort of the Sampson effect in reverse: after their first brush with success, ingenues chop off their locks as if to prove their power does not flow from their follicles. The most recently shorn is Felicity star KERI RUSSELL, who, by cutting her hair, banished one of the highlights of her show's first season. In the tidal wave of fame that followed the release of Pretty Woman, JULIA ROBERTS got cropped. And GWYNETH PALTROW ditched her do upon garnering acclaim for Emma. Maybe it's just a way to avert fallout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 6, 1999 | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...poor that it preserved, by default, both the economic and the artistic value of the original work. Today artists such as Kinkade operate high-tech facilities that bond lithographs to an acrylic that can be rolled or even sprayed onto canvas with the details so fine that even the brush strokes are replicated. Kinkade's studio employs a team of 30 touch-up artists whose sole task is to hand-paint highlights onto the prints, enabling the sales team to market each one as a "unique" work that looks very much like an original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Of Selling Kitsch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...mean, like, "I-have-great-breasts-come-touch-them-feel-them." I feel very uncomfortable about my body, so I was trying to brush that off with sarcasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michelle Williams | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

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