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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July, a buff, if bedraggled (has she forgotten the benefits of shampoo?) Madonna appeared on Oprah and shared the secret of her long, lean, chiseled body--an exercise system called Pilates. Initially attracted by the spiritual quality of the exercise, its fantastic results were what got her hooked and what has kept her away from the StairMaster forever. Her announcement heightened a trend ready to break out, and within days anyone who was anyone had booked their first appointment in one of Manhattan's numerous studios. Following in the steps of the celebrity set, trendoids from Malibu to Miami were...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, | Title: Pontius Pilates | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...Ruminations of a Fire Buff" (Opinion, Oct. 5), Marc Ambinder reveals his fascination and excitement about all things having to do with fire-fighting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Risking It All, Firefighters Are Rare Modern Heroes | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...movie buff friends tell me that the above scene is the first instance in which Woody Allen presents Annie Hall's main theme: the idea that only in art can one reshape reality and have complete control over one's life. As Alvy says into the camera after the scene, "Boy, if life were only like this...

Author: By Sujit Raman, | Title: Academic Truth Is All Relative | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...came out as a fire-buff about two years ago, after becoming addicted to the emergency scanners at my place of work...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...Full Monty give Americans a taste for seeing less-than-buff foreigners in the raw? The producers of Waking Ned Devine are hoping so. The movie is the story of what happens when someone in a tiny town in Ireland wins a big lottery. It doesn't sound too racy a plot line, but it's the most dangerous one that Irish actor DAVID KELLY, 69, has taken on. "Right up to the second we shot the scene, I had never, ever sat on a motorbike, and I didn't realize one has to balance," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 21, 1998 | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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