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...through the air, giving the bad guys foot-facials (Charlie's stunt maven, Yuen Cheung-yan, is the brother of Yuen Wo-ping, who choreographed "Tiger"). And to Barrymore, who produced it, "Charlie's" is a tribute to today's woman: able, independent and cute, not so much femi-nist as femi-nice. "We wanted the Angels to be strong, but not masculine," says scriptwriter John August. "They aren't afraid of their sexuality, but they don't use it as power. Drew and I agreed they should be recognizable 'girls.' And she doesn't mind the word 'girls...
...radio is far from cooperative. Teeny-Pop and Femi-Rock abounds on the airwaves and after shouting down Josh's demands for 94.5, we turn to Daniel's CD collection. He announces that he has an `80s mix, and we react favorably. Track One: Eric Clapton's "Change the World...
...there is no encouragement in this country for entrepreneurs or people who have learning. Money, quick money, is the only thing that matters." For most people, there is only one way to make a fast buck: from government contracts awarded on the basis of favoritism and kickbacks. Says Femi Adefope, the American-educated owner of a travel agency in Lagos: "If you do business honestly, no one will do business with...
Grudges by the vanload: Limbaugh has a hate list bigger than his capacious ego. Of course, those on the list are all liberals, some formidable, some fringe. Feminists -- in Limbaugh's terms "femi-Nazis" -- argue for equal rights on the job because "they can't get a man, and their rage is one long PMS attack." People critical of Los Angeles top cop Daryl Gates "want to abolish the police." The N.A.A.L.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People) is a "Nazi-like police force" because it wanted to investigate one of its chapters' support for Supreme Court...
While many braided men-as well as women-cajole friends or family into helping them twine their locks, others visit an expanding coterie of cornrowing specialists. Manhattan Corn-Rower Femi Sarah Heggie has plaited the likes of Aretha Franklin, Melvin Van Peebles, Nina Simone and Dick Williams. Brooklyn Plaiter Christine Harper, on the other hand, concentrates on braiding businessmen in their 20s and 30s. "Rugged he-men types are my best customers," she says. The mahatma of Washington corn-rowers is Nat Mathis, better known to friends and customers as Nat the Bush Doctor. Nat began his career with Afros...