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...detected a hint of disappointment in Lewis's message. He wrote that he "enjoys" playing dress-up once a year. But is once enough? Dr. Know started to fantasize about Dean Lewis as a closeted fashionista when he started gabbing passionately about his academic threads. When he told Dr. K about his 100 percent silk gown, she almost wet her panties with delight! She started dreaming about a queeny deany. He described his "true, pure silk academic gown" so deliciously, almost as if he knew Dr. K's mantra when it comes to these things--"academia-as-erotica." And then...

Author: By Dr. Know, | Title: Dear Dr. Know | 6/7/2000 | See Source »

...pity for awe and give them the prize. Von Trier had earlier declared that Bjork was no actress, as if those who'd seen the film needed reminding. But Besson and the jury, which included oughta-know-better actors Jeremy Irons and Kristin Scott Thomas, didn't take the hint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bjork Is a Bjerk, and Other News From Cannes | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...them as he tries to discredit Bush's plan. The vice president's first stop on Wednesday was a speech to 10,000 senior citizens at an American Association of Retired Persons convention. There and over the next weeks, expect Gore to use the word "risky" very liberally and hint broadly that Bush's plan isn't ready for prime time and neither is Bush. Gore may need to emerge from the shadow of Bill Clinton (who offered Monday that neither plan was as good as his from a few years ago: setting up the individual accounts with money from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush, Gore and Social Security | 5/17/2000 | See Source »

...himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: BEATING THE SYSTEM | 5/17/2000 | See Source »

That minor touch of daring is a hint of what CBS might have made of the New Testament's complex conflict. But as far as Jesus is concerned, that remains the greatest story never told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Human, None Too Human | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

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