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...there are conventions of beauty underlying those of art. For instance, the ideal Italian Renaissance woman had to be a white-skinned blond. Brunets would simply not do. Fashion, literature and the formal constructions of desire insisted on that. Since Italy, then as now, was short of pale natural blonds, bleaching was in order. A favorite bleach--especially in Venice, where prostitutes had to be blond to succeed--was human urine. Whose, history does...
Worst movie | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Wearing a D cup and a scowl, Angelina Jolie might seem the ideal action babe. But she's just Stallone with bigger pectorals, and she has the action hero's sadly familiar urge: to save part of the world and blow the rest up. After Sept. 11, is she an anachronism or a harbinger of Hollywood's next wave of righteous belligerence...
...experience in TV or in Asia. But Rupert Murdoch wasn't looking for an expert: he wanted a trusted emissary who would look after his interests with the unswerving dedication of, well, family. In Asia, where family connections carry tremendous weight, someone with the Murdoch pedigree makes an ideal ambassador. Besides, Rupert already had somebody who knew about TV and Asia: himself. "You put someone in charge without any practical experience running a large business and you'd think it would be a prescription for disaster," says a senior News Corp. executive in New York. "But James came in listening...
With the Segway, Kamen plans to change the world by changing how cities are organized. To Kamen's way of thinking, the problem is the automobile. "Cities need cars like fish need bicycles," he says. Segways, he believes, are ideal for downtown transportation. Unlike cars, they are cheap, clean, efficient, maneuverable. Unlike bicycles, they are designed specifically to be pedestrian friendly. "A bike is too slow and light to mix with trucks in the street but too large and fast to mix with pedestrians on the sidewalk," he argues. "Our machine is compatible with the sidewalk. If a Segway hits...
...Washington to kick off another ten-year expansion - like the one, ahem, that just ended under the new guy - is to put the budget back in balance and soothe the savage bond markets that run up long-term interest rates when the feds run up the debt. (The economic ideal would be tax cuts and a balanced budget, but when was the last time that happened...