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Houellebecq has a gift for sleepy invective; he has contempt for both freedom and authority. But he's like a bad date--brimming with rank charm but few useful judgments. The great nihilist doesn't even know what a closet Victorian he is. Michel sentimentalizes commercial sex, imagining a Western encounter with the Third World that will be calculating and unglamorous but, all in all, gentle. You might say "gently empty." The empty part is a good bet. Somebody remind the author that the gentleness is not to be counted on. --By Richard Lacayo

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex With The Poor For Profit | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...know from the first Legally Blonde movie, there's something in her closet besides 200 pairs of shoes. In that case, it was a dream of self-realization: Harvard Law School and all that. In the sequel (subtitled Red White & Blonde), she's offering a much broader liberal and populist agenda to the "land of the free gift with purchase." Searching for the birth mom of the abandoned Bruiser, she discovers that Mrs. Bruiser is being used in experiments by a cosmetics conglomerate. Devoted though she is to lip gloss, this is too much for Elle. Off she goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ladies Who Lunge | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...immunity bill that stopped the trial against him dead in his tracks - guaranteeing that his time as E.U. president won't be sullied by a verdict. Berlusconi has spent the two years since taking office preparing for his E.U. role by stuffing his own legal problems into a closet and slamming the door. But his conflict-of-interest problem remains, as even one supporter admits, "as big as a house." The Prime Minister is also the country's leading publisher, advertiser and a major player in the financial and insurance sectors. His three Mediaset channels account for more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Not Adjust Your Sets | 6/29/2003 | See Source »

...adult visitors. "You can see the light go on as people discover solutions that are relevant for them," Cashman says. The Container Store has a prop shop that does nothing but provide set dressing matched to customers' tastes--avoiding the cheapest pair of shoes, say, to dress up a closet display, in favor of a pair of shoes whose style and design customers can appreciate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Just Take the Money! | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...bamboo roll-up shade covers his bookshelf, a tea set sits in the corner. He has no bed and no standard-issue desk, chair or bureau. Instead, his laptop rests on a small wooden table low to the ground, and he takes a futon mattress out of his closet each night...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Four-Year Path to a Quincy Suite | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

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