Word: buffs
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...designation now; for guys they're more like bondage, and not the fun kind. The average guy hates or dismisses McConaughey movies because they'll require him to sit with his girlfriend through 100 minutes of extreme rendition, then endure her reproach that he's not nearly so cute, buff or romantically attentive as the hunk on screen. Men hate a ladies' man, a species of which McConaughey may be the last, best example. He speaks in silkily modulated tones, carries himself with a lithe sexual assurance and, at the end of movies where he's played the restless tiger...
Shape Shifting. If the long winter has left you a bit doughy, the Gansevoort Turks & Caicos' Exhale Spa is offering monthly Core Intensive Weekends, starting May 14-17, to help get you back to buff. You'll endure daily Pilates-style fitness classes, plus one 60-minute massage for recovery purposes. If you want to stay on and just sit like a slug on the beach, the hotel has a special opening rate of $295 per night, which includes an oceanview suite, breakfast, a daily fitness class and 35% off at the spa. Rates for the fitness weekend, start...
...Hiking in the buff might shock Thomas' bosses, as well as some of Appenzell's 15,000 inhabitants, but it's no skin off his back. "Hiking in clothes is too constrictive," he says, adding that he has never had any negative reactions from the fully clothed hikers he meets on the trails. "I like to feel comfortable. There's nothing wrong with that, is there...
...definitely not. I'm not buff enough. Apart from Shoot 'Em Up, which is an out-and-out crazy comedy-action movie, I don't feel that any of the others are action movies. They've just got action in them...
Anyone trying to learn how to dig up ancient artifacts by watching the Tomb Raider movies would find little practical help from Angelina Jolie traipsing around Cambodia's temples. If you're an online-literature buff in China, you might have better luck. Last spring, an unemployed 45-year-old man and his seven accomplices were arrested by police after having successfully dug up artifacts from a 15th century tomb just outside Beijing. Their techniques, as the police soon found out, were an exact imitation of those described in Ghost Blows Out the Light, a hugely popular Chinese online novel...