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...characters, the soundtrack is packed with Frank Sinatra tunes, "That's Amore" and "Mambo Italiano," and there's actually a character with the surname Buttafucco (sic). That said, this series, about Lydia DeLucca (Heather Paige Kent), a 32-year-old New Jersey woman who ditches her troglodyte fianc? to go back to college, is cleverly directed and makes a few fresh observations. The DeLucca family Sunday-dinner ritual - the meal is wolfed down, to the ticking of an egg timer, during halftime of the Giants game - is a great set piece. The series will have to lose the red-sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall TV Preview | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

...Paris-born designer who convinced Jacqueline Kennedy she should have one chief couturier, then went on to create the elegant dresses and pillbox hats that made her the most stylish, most copied First Lady in U.S. history; on Long Island, New York. After dressing Marilyn Monroe and onetime fianc? Grace Kelly in Hollywood, the pioneer "celebrity designer" set up shop in New York City in the 1950s, launching still-popular trends such as A-line dresses before taking the White House position in 1961. His motto: "Be mobile at all times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

ENGAGED. PRINCESS SAYAKO, 35, to Yoshiki Kuroda, a 39-year-old government employee; in Tokyo. The princess, who is the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, drew praise from many single Japanese women for her decision to delay marriage until she found the right partner. Her fianc? is an urban planner for the Tokyo metropolitan administration and is reported to be a close school friend of the princess's elder brother, Prince Fumihito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...familiar sentiment. Steve Leahy, 39, from Providence, Rhode Island had lost his 75-year-old father barely a week ago. ?He?s up there and he?s behind this and that?s why I?m here,? said Leahy. ?My fianc? told me I had to go to the game because dad would have wanted me to be there.? Leahy said that his father passed away shortly after game 5 when the Sox beat the Yankees in the 14th inning. And there were countless others like Jeff Shneider from New York who had attended the 1975 World Series when Boston lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweeping Beauty | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...authored by Lilley's journalist son, Jeffrey, is a survey of postimperial Chinese history, a compendium of American blunders in troublesome nations, and it has some pretty good locker-room tales about spies, including how, using his covert-messaging skills, Lilley helped a colleague bag another man's fianc?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Knows His Subject | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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