Word: demy
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What are these "novel" ideas that objectivists defend at all costs? Reason, egoism and laissez-faire capitalism. Objectivists seem to think these concepts are new finds. And what's more, that their demi-goddess, Ayn Rand, stumbled upon them first. Of course, the concept of laissez-faire capitalism has been around for more than a few decades--at least that's what professors in the economics department keep telling me. But, hell, what do they know? And reason and egoism? Well, let's see. Can you say "Plato, Nietzsche, Russell, Sartre...
...would Demi Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack Nicholson and Sharon Stone stay on a small island that is just within sight of an oil-tank farm and is located near a busy shipping channel and a sewage-treatment plant? Perhaps it's to bask on a beach of imported white Bahamian sand, flex pecs in the 22,000-sq.-ft. spa, volley at any of the 18 tennis courts or choose from more than 11 brands of bottled water at the local market...
Higher was also the objective of the many stargazers who attended the first week's events and collected celebrities like pins: Simpson, David Hasselhoff, Bruce and Demi, Arnold, Ali, Chelsea--who, bless her heart, went to everything--and her parents. Royalty mixed with Olympian and, in the case of Kuwaiti swimmer S.A.B.S. Sultan Alotaibi, who finished 37th out of 37 in the 200-m individual medley, were one and the same. Perhaps the most interesting encounter occurred at the Olympic Village, when U.S. team handball circle runner Dave DeGraaf was followed into the lavatory by men in suits. "Mr. President...
MOVIES . . . STRIPTEASE: Whatever lubricious thoughts the advance buzz may have induced, 'Striptease' is not about Demi Moore1s getting naked ? well, almost naked. She does, several times, and she is, as we used to say a damned handsome woman. But so far as this movie is concerned, not a very sexy one, says TIME's Richard Schickel. Writer-director Andrew Bergman presents her as a rather abstract object of desire. He wants us to know that his mind, at least, is not in the gutter. The film places Moore's character, a stripper named Erin Grant, in a nasty fight...
Striptease, whatever lubricious thoughts the advance buzz may have induced, is not about Demi Moore's getting naked--well, almost naked. She does, several times, and she is, as we used to say when we gathered out back of the corncrib to discuss family values, a damned handsome woman...