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...might hate me, thinking I have one of those annoyingly efficient metabolisms that just burn up fat the instant it enters my body. You might wonder if I have an intestinal worm, or perhaps an eating disorder. Or maybe you'd just shrug your shoulders and figure I have a rich fantasy life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eat Yourself Thin | 3/29/2001 | See Source »

...Chocolat" and "Dancer in the Dark" are forgotten. Oh, sorry, they already are. But we were happy to see a handsome Asian contingent, including presenters Michelle Yeoh (come on, Hollywood, find a juicy role for this accomplished ravisher) and her "Crouching Tiger" co-star, the suavely unintelligible Chow Yun-fat. And to hear Peter Pau, Cinematography winner, zip through 37 names, most of them Chinese, in a 50- second acceptance speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crouching Traffic, Hidden Winner | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...This year's skits included "Chocolat Tiger, Hidden Bon-Bon" with the octogenarian "Chocolat" producer David Brown hamming it as Brown Young Fat; a revised "Chocolat" with director Roland Joffe ("The Killing Fields" and MTV's "Undressed") as an outlandish Satan (wearing toy-store $3 devil horns made out of crimson satin) seducing Marisa Tomei and Christina Applegate. James Woods showed his appreciation for the genre by dragging it up as "Erin Chocovitch," displaying what he conceded to me were the spindliest legs in the business. His beautiful young date seemed shell-shocked. One surmised that she'd perhaps seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing the Oscar Bash | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...Mongolians name their children on an I-spy basis. In our four days, we met "Cockroach," "Airplane" and "Axe," and hulking babyweights "5 kg" and "8 kg." Such unwarrior-like sentimentality does not extend to animals, however, and our rides were distinguished simply as "the black one" or "the fat, lazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fermented Mare's Milk and the Manly Arts | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...were to gain weight, the experience wouldn't be pleasant. Not only would weight gain cancel out all likelihood of ever fitting a mainstream wardrobe, but tall people don't actually get fat. Instead, they get big. There's a difference--tall women can never become round and curvy like shorter people do. Instead, they grow increasingly oversized. This is why the phrase "She's a tall girl" is much preferable to "She's a big girl." Please remember that...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Editor's Notebook: Being Tall | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

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