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...easy to think that Star Trek inspires either adoration or loathing - that you love it so much you say your wedding vows in Klingon, or you pity those who do. But most who have read even this far know there's another class of Trekker - the closeted ones. These are people who aren't telling co-workers they plan to see Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th Trek film, which opened in the U.S. last week and debuts in Europe over the next few weeks. They won't admit they watch Enterprise, the sixth - sixth - TV series in the franchise. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek Inc. | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

Given that most men don't buy new clothes until the ones they have are irredeemably stained or torn, how do retailers get them to acquire more khakis and buttoned-down shirts when they already have several in their closet? In effect, by throwing in the towel. A wave of new products suggests that manufacturers are finally conceding that they will never get most men interested in high fashion. So, helped by new technology, they are appealing to men's baser fashion instincts and habits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look, Ma, No Stains | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

Lurie: Oh! My ass-kicking! I kick tremendous amounts of ass. I kick so much ass I don’t know where to kick it anymore. I used to kick it over into my closet but if you look into my closet right now it’s so full of asses that I have no more room...

Author: By William L. Adams, Irin Carmon, Mollie H. Chen, Peter L. Hopkins, and Daniel K. Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Throwing The Knuckleball | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

Jacques Derrida is very not dead. in fact, he's a little too alive, basking in the attention of young female groupies, scrambling for his keys, checking out his library archive and standing in front of his closet debating which designer's jacket to wear to a dinner party. For the past five years, the world's most famous living philosopher, author of such Gitanes-and-black-turtleneck classics as Of Grammatology, allowed a camera to follow him around in order to make Derrida, a documentary that demonstrates, if nothing else, that The Osbournes' celebrity reality-show virus has spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life with the Father of Deconstructionism | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...doing to those clothes--cutting holes in them to get the tags off--do you think she was going to wear them?" says Dr. Marcus Goldman, author of Kleptomania: The Compulsion to Steal--What Can Be Done? "They probably would have ended up in a heap in her closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did Winona Ryder Do It? | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

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