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JOHANNESBURG: Graca Machel may become a first lady for a second time -- and of a second country -- on Saturday. South Africa's media is awash with reports that President Nelson Mandela plans to celebrate his 80th birthday by marrying Machel, 52, his companion of two years. "Mandela is staying coy and there's no certainty, but the signs are that there may be a small wedding at his home on Saturday," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. Machel is the widow of Samora Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, who died in a plane crash in 1987. South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, South African Style | 7/16/1998 | See Source »

...Orleans chef Emeril Lagasse, who drives his studio audience to squeals by overloading dishes with garlic, Tabasco and wine and simultaneously yelling "Bam!" The network's newest show lands Bobby Flay--a guy's guy of a chef--outdoors in the Hamptons (the Hamptons!) with an annoyingly coy female comic (female!) and a weekly guest. The first week's guest was Inside the NFL host Nick Buoniconti, which saved the waning testosterone level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How to Survive Summer | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...have suffered over her taped conversations with Lewinsky. But the White House spin machine appears ready to roll, with White House aide Sydney Blumenthal in the New York Times recounting some of the questions he faced from Starr's prosecutors in an effort to paint the investigation as a coy probe of the President's libido. But beyond getting his witnesses to elaborate on the definitions of what constitutes a sexual act, Starr's eyes are fixed on the prize: testimony from Lewinsky about a presidential cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starr Plays the Tripp Card | 6/30/1998 | See Source »

...York businesswoman will testify to a physical relationship between the intern and the President. Dale Young, an alleged Lewinsky confidante reportedly told the magazine that Lewinsky had claimed she and the President had engaged in foreplay, but that "nothing was ever taken to conclusion." Adding new detail to the coy speculation over the latitude of definitions involved in the President's denial of the relationship, Young was quoted as saying, "He felt it wasn't really oral sex if it wasn't completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starr Turns Up the Heat | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

However, the dough balls in sugar water that parade around under the name "Kesar Rasgulla," are not worth the $2.95 addition to your bill. The cheese is finally present in the meal, but it is surrounded by a clinging, coy sweetness that leaves the taste flat in your mouth. Stick to the pudding, and you'll walk away a very satisfied customer...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: passage to india | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

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