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BUSH: I wouldn't say that. I admire a good thinker--particularly if they're practical. And I like to read a good book. I'm a history buff. I just finished Stephen Ambrose's book on building the transcontinental railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Speaks | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...Richard Hatch used group-management skills to build protective alliances, describing his plan to viewers with the glee of a dinner-theater Iago. He was confidence embodied. At 250 lbs. before island life slimmed him down--SurvivorSucks.com dubbed him "Machiabelly"--he had no problem strutting around camp in the buff. Hatch attributed his pluck partly to being openly gay in a straight man's world--in a sense, he was the most real, least stereotypical gay "character" on network TV. And he didn't check his cockiness on Pulau Tiga. Posing for TIME, he vowed, "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Class of 2000 | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

Before Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale, there was her Disappearing Acts. Can ambitious singer Zora (Sanaa Lathan) find love with Franklin, the construction worker who fixed up her gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone? Since the soft-hearted hardhat is a statue-buff Wesley Snipes, well, three guesses. As money and personality troubles set in, however, it turns out Zora exhaled too soon. Like many renovations, Acts is most attractive on its glossy surface; too often the subtext crashes clumsily through the drywall. But the leads do hammer charismatic performances out of the material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disappearing Acts | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...those of you who haven't raised an eight-year-old boy lately, has evolved from a normally proportioned grunt into a buff, ripped, mega muscular warrior who, if he were a real man, would have 27-inch biceps and other proportions achievable only through years of bench presses, protein diets and the liberal use of steroids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring Up | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...AMERICANA BUFF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treats That Speak Volumes | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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