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Recalling a nightmare bus ride from North Carolina to Oregon, he captures the discreet charm of a particular single mother: "I got a good mind to call him Cecil Fucking Fuckwad, after his daddy." Later, outside of Portland, he hears of the tender courtship of a man of faith: "Oh, she wasn't my wife at the time, just another cute nurse with a great set of tits and an ass a man could get lost in. Jesus brought us together. Then he told us to get married and hightail it the fuck out of Alaska...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: not for the clothes-minded | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

Virtually no one with a checkbook was turned away from Bill Clinton's fund-raising party--not convicted felons, not Buddhist monks bearing someone else's money, not even a Russian mobster. But few of them felt the need to be quite as discreet as Carl Lindner, the banana king who had a bundle to drop in the last election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUSY BACK-DOOR MEN | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...pitch to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who told him that Cuba would offer asylum to the rebels if all parties can agree on an arrangement. "We have discussed some points that I can't disclose, obviously, because our objective is to liberate the 72 hostages. We must be discreet," Fujimori said. While the President played down his surprise visit to Havana today as well as his talks yesterday with the leader of the Dominican Republic, Fujimori has acknowledged that offering the rebels asylum in exchange for the release of the hostages "might be necessary at some point." He seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take my Rebels--Please | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

There wasn't a mode he couldn't handle, from the sacred to the sentimental, from the epic to the pastoral, from the mythic to the slyly humorous. As with Bernini or Titian, one stands in awe of his sheer fecundity. And he could be very witty--in a discreet way. His early Apelles Painting Campaspe, c. 1726-27, shows a familiar story from Pliny: the Greek artist Apelles made a portrait of Campaspe, the mistress of Alexander the Great, which so pleased Alexander that when it was finished, he kept the painting and gave Campaspe herself to the artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: VENETIAN VIRTUOSO: GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...were sighted frolicking on Mustique. Stills of a nude Koo from her notorious films were splattered across the London tabs. Koo later married Tim Jefferies, heir to a trading-stamp fortune, but the union lasted only a year. Since then she has run her own photography business. Always discreet concerning her romance with Andrew, she is reportedly still a friend of his. In August they danced together at a party thrown by the Yorks. Koo is expecting her first child next month, but has refused to divulge the identity of the father. A Buddhist since meeting the Dalai Lama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 3, 1997 | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

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