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...brainy girl who may not zap ice-cream cones, Alex Mack-style, in the face of uncharitable classmates but can always cut them down with her sharp tongue. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon's The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (Saturday, 9 p.m. EDT) offers up a modernized Nancy Drew in flannel shirts. Played by a Harvard senior, Irene Ng, Shelby is an after-school police-department intern who just can't curb her urge to fight crime as an extracurricular activity. Then there is upn's Moesha (Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT), which stars R.-and-B. singer Brandy Norwood as a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEWITCHING TEEN HEROINES | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...Gucci and Prada. Jacobs should give Vuitton a high and profitable fashion profile--what he was hired to do--stepping into a company whose business is up 54% since it became part of LVMH. Last week Jacobs showed his own line of American classics with lots of cashmere and flannel--a sort of '90s Halston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: THE POPE OF FASHION | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...most everything else they sell. I've bought cassette tapes, flannel pajamas, four-pound bags of Tootsie rolls for my high school It's Academic quiz show team, and a Dustbuster. My parents bought a porch umbrella once. We regularly get crates of soda and enormous bottles of detergent...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: An Ode to the Puritan Ethic | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

There is a relaxed, nonhierarchical atmosphere as the seven young managers of the "WebDVD" group, all in the standard winter uniform of khakis and flannel shirts, gather in a windowless conference room near Gates' office. They have been working for almost a year on a digital videodisc intended to provide content along with Web browsing for television sets, and he wants to review their progress before leaving for Japan, where he will meet with such potential partners as Toshiba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN SEARCH OF THE REAL BILL GATES | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

...Lives of Superheroes" is an unusual romantic comedy that chronicles a blind date set up by a psychiatrist between two of his patients. Standing alone in his living room, in his guy-at-home uniform of worn jeans, flannel shirt and socked feet, Michael (David Egan) likes to imagine himself lecturing at Carnegie Hall on the sex lives of superheroes. Eleanor (Abigail Gray) likes to rewrite love stories into tragedies--"Or, if they're already tragic but in a really noble way, I rewrite 'em so they're squalid and bitter." What's keeping this perfect pair apart? Only Michael...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Super Heroes, Super Sex | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

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