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With or without a diploma, not everyone getting married at Memorial Church uses their Ivy League intellect. Edington tells of a groom who decided to get his hair cut mere minutes before the start of the ceremony. But that’s not the all-time best wedding blooper. According to Edington, that honor belongs to “the bride who asked, just before the wedding began, whether the best man could stand in for the groom—because the groom ‘isn’t feeling well today.’ Answer: very, very...

Author: By Jennifer P. Jordan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Hitched in Mem Church | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

Indeed, what imaginary friends say and do can be a useful window into a child's mind. Four years ago, Quinn Pascal, 6, a bubbly first-grader from Eugene, Ore., invented Elfie-Welfie, an invisible woman with piles of tie-dyed hair and a menagerie of "dozens of zillions, katrillions" of imaginary animals. Quinn's mother Kate says Quinn uses Elfie-Welfie to play out some very real desires. In Elfie-Welfie's world, Quinn was allowed on the rides at the fair. (In real life, Quinn was too small.) Elfie-Welfie had an orange cat named Stripey. (Quinn desperately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Make-Believe | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...lead role, Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai is pretty as a picture--a still picture. She appears always to be fluffing her hair for the next fashion shoot. She's got moves on the dance floor; and in the sumptuous and catchy score by Anu Malik and Craig Pruess, she smartly sells a few numbers that try to update the Austen ethos ("I just wanna man who gives some back/ Who talks to me and not my rack"). What she can't yet do is suggest a complex spirit behind the lovely fa?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Indian Bummer | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Mahadevan had to stimulate the same hair twice within a 10-15 second time frame in order to get the plant to shut...

Author: By Megan C. Harney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Venus Fly Trap’s Mystery Revealed | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

...Exotic - that's the word! And she's intriguing, if you know what I mean." In a near-clinch, Ling Moy wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff. When he begs her to "chuck everything and stay," she asks him, "If I stayed, would my hair ever become golden curls, and my skin ivory, like Ronald's?" But the lure of the exotic is hard to shake. "Strange," he says, "I prefer yours. I shall never forget your hair and your eyes." They almost kiss ... when an off-camera scream shakes him out of his dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Anna May Win | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

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