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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...insecurities). The line is ever-so-thin between "Not Quite Gay Enough" or "Just a Little Too Gay," but the boy who is "Just Gay Enough" is guaranteed to score. You tough guys must be thinking, "But how do I become 'J.G.E'?" Unfortunately, it's an inexact science-and if you still own a leather jacket, your chances at succeeding are slim. To make it, you have to balance your tough-guy posturing with an unexpected hint of vulnerability-you might act like Brando around the guys, but you'll also never miss "Felicity" on Wednesday nights. You might idolize...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the [K]now | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

What these two isolated facts have to do with each other is made resplendently luminous in Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 164 pages; $30), a long narrative poem with a number of stories on its mind. One is what Walcott modestly calls his "inexact and blurred biography" of the painter Pissarro, a Sephardic Jew whose ancestors were driven out of Portugal, who chose to practice his art in Europe rather than the raw island paradise of his birth. A parallel account involves Walcott: his boyhood fascination with the reproductions of European masterpieces he found in books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Islands in The Stream | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

Elites are strange creatures. Every society has one--at least one--that members and nonmembers alike are intensely aware of. But only rarely is an elite a formal entity, with stated membership criteria and a list of who belongs. Studying elites is thus an inexact science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Be The Next Elite? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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