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...tend to divide into two categories: the raunchier blind-date shows, generally on cable or in syndication, and the more mainstream "relationship" shows, generally on big networks, which combine a frisson of edginess with premises rooted in old-fashioned gender roles. On The Bachelor, one man chooses from a buffet of ladies with ring envy. Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?--ditto. Meet My Folks re-creates a paternalistic scenario that went out with the Hula Hoop, if not the moat: three young men ask the parents', especially Dad's, permission to court their daughter. Yes, Meet My Folks plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Tubs And Cold Shoulders | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...Tokyo fashionistas gather to shop and strut. Hunt for souvenirs at kitschy Oriental Bazaar, Omotesando-dori, tel. 03 3400-3933. GLAMOROUS COCKTAILS Take in wraparound views of Tokyo at the New York Grill on the 52nd floor of the Park Hyatt Hotel. Live jazz and a drool-worthy dessert buffet cap off your evening. New York Grill Park Hyatt, 52nd floor, 3-7-1 Nishi Shinjuku...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo - A Bath with a View | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...Iowa delivery room and flees to Cracow to join his cousin Jane. Jane turns out to be a Mephistophelean temptress of the first order, and she schools Gurney in the pleasures of the flesh, turning his stay in Cracow into an all-hours, all-you-can-eat buffet of food, booze, art and piquantly incestuous sex. What makes the novel work is that Beckman's Cracow has two faces, comic and tragic. The city enables their excesses, but at the book's most chilling moments it finds ways to remind them of the consequences of that excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocents Abroad | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...Winners EVEL KNIEVEL Elderly daredevil to defy death again. Instead of jumping buses, he'll strap rockets to his walker and try to jump the buffet line at Sizzler GARY KASPAROV Chess master beats 15-year-old, wins Moscow Grand Prix. Great, but was it necessary to spike the king and do the Icky Shuffle on the board? BRUCE ARENA U.S. coach's team beats Portugal. 280 million Americans are still trying to figure out why they don't just pick up the ball and run with it Losers NICHOLAS TSE Hunky Canto-pop star charged with perverting justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...only interesting country in the gulf," declares a Kuwaiti princess. "All the others are just the same." Compared with the singularly flat and bland desert landscapes of the gulf coast states, Oman's raw, rocky mountains, plunging fjords and ribbons of white sand beaches are a visual buffet to sand-seared eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Araby's Most Fabulous Destination | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

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