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...visiting child, with Rambling Rose, which portrays a much more genially dysfunctional family involved with a randy and amiably obliging serving girl played by Laura Dern. Based on a script that Calder Willingham derived from his own novel, Rose's true preoccupation is one that the movies always cater to slyly but almost never directly confront: basic, down-and- goofy human horniness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's New Directions | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

City spas probably owe their popularity to the growing number of women professionals who want to cram the benefits of a massage or body scrub into their crowded business day. But the facilities cater to both sexes, and for rushed executives or work-out enthusiasts, they help unknot kinks and ease tensions. Corporations are joining the trend by rewarding employees with day- spa gift certificates; rather than woo clients over lunch at a chic restaurant, many businesswomen now treat them to a short stint at a day spa, where a la carte treatments replace the lengthy regimens at full-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Mud Treatments -- to Go | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...India, the going rate for a kidney from a live donor is $1,500; for a cornea, $4,000; for a patch of skin, $50. Two centers of the thriving kidney trade are Bombay, where private clinics cater to Indians and a foreign clientele dominated by wealthy Arabs, and Madras, a center for patients from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Renal patients in India and Pakistan who cannot find a relative to donate a kidney are permitted to buy newspaper advertisements offering living donors up to $4,300 for the organ. Mohammad Aqeel, a poor Karachi tailor who recently sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trading Flesh Around the Globe | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...Milwaukee announced that it intends to set up two schools that will cater to the needs of black boys, in the hope that it will help them succeed academically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Race Man Argues for a Broader Curriculum: HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...Hubba Hubba, catering to people that few cater to, and offering people what others dare not to, makes it an especially special specialty store--and that helps business tremendously...

Author: By Esme Howard, | Title: Enhancing the Sexual Experience | 4/20/1991 | See Source »

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