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...overprotectiveness. Boys? "Don't even get me started," she says, rolling her eyes. "My mom's a little better. But mention anything about boys, and my dad goes crazy." She has weird rituals. Ask her about her injury-free career, and she scurries for a balance beam to knock wood. Most refreshing, unlike so many world-class gymnasts, who sound as if they've spent too many hours in airless gyms inhaling chalk powder and practicing the mantra "I just want to do the best I can," Moceanu is forthright. She admits she wants to win--but is prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINIQUE MOCEANU: FLEXIBLE FLYER | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

...thought I heard another grunt, but it might have been a knock coming out of the transmission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TACTLESS IN SEATTLE | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...budget R-rated movies--has been one of the prime attractions of pay cable ever since its birth in the 1970s. But it wasn't until just a few years ago that programmers began rolling out their own regularly-scheduled erotic dramas; Showtime was first with Red Shoe Diaries. Knock-offs like the network's own lower-rent Love Street have been popping up ever since, and while they vary significantly in terms of production values, most do quite well in the ratings. Showtime's Diaries is one of the network's highest-rated programs; the same is true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: NOW, THE SEX FILES | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

That's a measure of how annoyingly weird the season was for the Crimson. This team could lose to Cornell by two but almost knock off Princeton...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: F. Hockey Can't Find Footing | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...round. "None of those polls are accurate," concedes a Yeltsin adviser. "We have put them out to influence Yavlinsky and Lebed. They may still decide to continue their own campaigns, but we're confident now that at least they won't combine into a third-force coalition that could knock the President out of the box in the June 16 first round of voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA'96: THE PEOPLE CHOOSE | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

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