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None of this is new, of course--Elvis claimed he wanted to be your teddy bear too. Teen idols have always served as erotic learner's permits, from those who went on to transcend the role like Frank Sinatra, James Dean, the Beatles and John Travolta, to more disposable incarnations like David Cassidy and New Kids on the Block. Michael Jackson, having never allowed himself to develop secondary sex characteristics, is like a teen-idol experiment gone horribly, tragically awry. But that is the kind of icky, confusing story that has no place in what publisher Nancy Pines of Archway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deconstructing Leo | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

Victor (Liberto Rabal) has a lofty ambition: to become "the best lover in the world." And Clara (Angela Molina) is eager to coach him. The first lesson, she sagely informs him, is that "making love involves two people." He smiles, then asks, "And the second...?" Victor is a quick learner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lust For Life | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Bunting-Smith] did a great deal of learning on her own, especially with nature," Bunting said. "That early way of being a learner about the world was something that continued through her life...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pillar of Radcliffe, Bunting-Smith, Dies | 1/23/1998 | See Source »

...brass knew about it ahead of time. On the American side, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards and Joseph Cotten as Secretary of State Stimson, and S? Yamamura and Tatsuya Mihashi manning the aerial battering ram. A full complement of directors, one American and two Japanese, make this a true learner for those whose schoolbook days are mercifully over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potato Harbor | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...This is not cojones," Albright said. "This is cowardice." At other times she referred to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as a "slow learner" and told corrupt Haitian generals, "You can leave voluntarily and soon or involuntarily and soon...

Author: By William P. Moynahan, | Title: A Bright Future | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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