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...problem is the rescues. If Baywatch would just stick to the slow-motion running and random bikini contests and bring the thonged extras into the foreground, guys wouldn't need other television shows. Yet Baywatch insists, week after week, on these tedious lifesaving rescue missions. Let the fools drown, people. Prioritize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Babe Tube | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...Formica, underneath a wall filled with photographs of the BU football team while electric fans hum overhead. Two burly Boston cops sit in the booth behind ours, shouting at the short order cook in a Boston accent worthy of a Jordan's Furniture commercial. Their noise does not drown out the precise, thoughtful speech and South African accent of Mr. Morris, however, and somehow the two tables, worlds apart, settle into an even coexistence. The short order cook begins to sing the theme song of the brady bunch over the strains of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" coming from...

Author: By Christina B. Roseberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reagan's | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...monthly: $195 initiation fee plus $116 per month, yearly: $195 initiation fee plus $107 per month) offers a glut of exercise options for your former weight in gold. Upstairs is the 45 ft. lap pool, 4.5 ft. deep all the way through so you won't drown. And to top it all off, the Wellbridge membership includes two appointments every three months with a personal trainer to update your personal workout. But "Please limit the use of cellphones." If you don't have one, then the Wellbridge...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Physical | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...solitude." For Bradley, a reluctant celebrity since the age of 16, the river can be about connection one minute, blessed aloneness the next. He marches onto a floating dock and we follow, threatening to swamp the old planks. Ernestine panics: "Bill! I'll go with you! If we drown, we drown together!" To avert disaster, Bradley's people tell the media to go out in mini packs. An aide complains, "It's just a bunch of pencils"--reporters, not the cameras they want. This is, after all, about pretty pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Bradley's Twilight Cruise | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

Relations between Harvard and Radcliffe deteriorated further under President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who headed Harvard in the 1910s and '20s. According to Radcliffe lore, Lowell hoped to "drown three kittens" before his term ended: Harvard's Botanic Garden, the Harvard School of Education--and Radcliffe College...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Enters Historic Merger With Harvard | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

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