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...Well, if you have respect for your significant other and they have respect for your art, for those kind of scenes, you don't bring them to the set. They don't want to see it and you don't want to flaunt it in their face, but you have to do what you have to do. It's part...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Oh, The Places They're Going | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

...small urban event - in this case, the alleged assault with a brick by intermittently homeless man Paris Drake that sent a young woman to the hospital - can become of national interest when seen through the Giuliani-Hillary prism. Homelessness becomes hot, a chance for the two candidates to flaunt their party stripes. On one side the Republican mayor vows to protect society from the "violent crazies" (as a Daily News headline called them) walking the streets, while across the aisle the Democratic First Lady scores points with the sit-in crowd by boldly defending a voiceless dependent population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Homeless Became Important Once Again | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...down under, I think we all crave our fifteen minutes of fame, wherever and in whatever form they may turn up. The key to these few precious moments in the limelight, it would seem, is to grasp their proximity, hastily prepare as best one can, and proceed to flourish, flaunt, razzle and dazzle with all cameras pointed at you. Often, however, this is the most difficult piece of the task...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes Later | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

...likely target for Chinese missiles than Taiwan, which Beijing insists is still its own. Recent discussions between Japan, Taiwan and the U.S. about an antimissile defense network in eastern Asia have infuriated Beijing. Even though such a shield is decades away, a "missile-proof" Taiwan would surely continue--and flaunt--its independence, possibly triggering Asia's next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Muscle: Birth Of A Superpower | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Critics and movie buffs are arguably more discerning, although they seem currently to regard movies which are self-aware of their own unoriginality as creative wonders (Scream, for example). The less afraid a movie is to flaunt its derivative nature, the more successful...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wake Up and `Go-Go' | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

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