Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says. "It was either this or be in the ocean for a swim at midnight." Meanwhile, at midnight, south of downtown Los Angeles, LaRonda Calloway, 45, of Culver City, Calif., will attend a "watch service" at New Commandment Missionary Baptist Church--safely indoors in a city where partyers are known to fire guns in the air to start the year. "You're there to thank the Lord for bringing you through the old year," she says, "and ask him to keep blessing you through the new year...
...Year's Eve, of course, is known for disappointment, freighted with the pressure to be the wildest night of the year but often ending in ennui, regret and beer stains. Is this one simply shaping up to be a letdown on a millennial scale? Not necessarily. Party planners and business people predict that customers will start filling hotels, parties and restaurants in the next few weeks--especially if prices drop enough...
JAID BARRYMORE has shed her clothes for Playboy, written a book of sex tips and appeared nude in the film 54, but she's still best known for being DREW BARRYMORE's mother. This may explain why last week she put several of her daughter's belongings up for auction on the Internet. Perhaps not the best strategy for rectifying a relationship that by her admission is a "bit estranged," but one nevertheless that may fetch her some extra cash. Among the items Jaid is offering are baby clothes, including an undershirt decorated with baby chicks and ducks, a Christmas...
...ancestors invented art tens of thousands of years ago, humans have been painting, sculpting and otherwise decorating everything in sight. The human body is just the nearest and most intimate canvas. Says anthropologist Enid Schildkrout of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City: "There is no known culture in which people do not paint, pierce, tattoo, reshape or simply adorn their bodies...
...something very simple in common: we had both done too much. We hadn't known when to stop. We had become addicts. We had gone through dark seasons at the end of which someone--in his case his partners at CAA and in mine my wife--had given us an ultimatum: get clean or get out. And we ended up at this treatment center outside Portland...