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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from a kiss-and-tell shocker, Hilary and Jackie tenderly portrays Du Pre as a high-spirited sister who adored her siblings, starting letters to them with the teasing salutation "Dear Fart Face." While often melodramatic, the book explains the family's strong affection for and complex relationship with its most talented member. Says Hilary: "We all ran to keep up with her." Hilary also tactfully discusses why she believed that encouraging Jacqueline's affair with her husband would help her sister get over a difficult period in which she was briefly separated from Barenboim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jacqueline du Pre: Requiems For Jackie | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...sweats, I decided just to suck up my pride and say hi when he passed. But, just as he was passing, I glanced down and realized that I had just gotten my period--in a big way! I was so embarrassed that I let out a huge, wet, smelly fart. He looked so disgusted and hasn't been nearly as nice to me in class, ever since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oh My God--I'm Sooo Embarrassed!!! | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...male ingenue, another Ronald Reagan). Put him in front of a camera, though, and his engine starts to hum. During a photo session, his publicist takes him aside and asks him to resist the urge to strike zany poses now that he is promoting a movie without any fart jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Don't Laugh | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...especially the U.S., pay it the attention it deserves. "Indian politicians feel they're not being listened to in the world because we don't have the Bomb," says Surjit Mansingh, a disarmament professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "They follow Mao's advice that a loud fart is better than a long lecture." Even though he was "bitterly disappointed," the ever empathetic Clinton suggested that India may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem because it believes it is "underappreciated" as a world power. "Well," he continued, "I think they've been underappreciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nukes...They're Back | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...zillions and plenty of clever insect asides. But the kids will love the gross-out effects. One tiny creature, the Termite-ator, blows "snot" at the audience (you will get wet). A stink bug backs up to the screen and engulfs the crowd in his sulfurous stench (face it, fart jokes are funny). At the end, the human audience is asked to wait while the bug audience leaves the theater, and--eww!--it feels as if cockroaches are scurrying under your butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Beauty and the Beasts | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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