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...glossy black-and-white prints she has pulled out of her well-worn leather portfolio are spread across the dark wood of the kitchen table. These are the photos she took last year for her Visual and Environmental Studies 40a project, which she modestly entitled Woman. Woman, she explains, focused on the image and transformation of the female body...

Author: By Christi Tran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Show Off | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...their part, Fox and NBC argue they're simply offering viewers a choice between entertainment and politics. Or, put another way, between a leather-clad action heroine and Al Gore in earth tones. And choice is certainly to be encouraged: That's what an election year is all about, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Networks! It's Debate Night! Play Ball! | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...accounts, Lebed is intelligent and likable, considered a tad geeky because of the black leather briefcase he totes to school. "He's not very active in school and stuff," notes Kristel Rice, a senior at Cedar Grove High School, where Lebed is a junior. While students knew of his interest in stock trading, he kept to himself, asking only a few to join him. "He kept quiet about it," says classmate Tom McCarthy. "He kept it personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crimes And Misdeminors | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...pile of purple cushions in her trailer, the Woman of the Future does not look as though she could clean your clock. Yet as Max, the bioengineered heroine of Dark Angel, the dystopian sci-fi drama from Titanic's James Cameron, Jessica Alba sports skintight bodysuits and leather as, swaggering lean and feline (literally: Max has cat DNA), she dives through windows and KO's tough guys twice her size. Now, barefoot and swaddled in a massive black turtleneck and baggy jeans, it's as if she has been shrunk within her clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: 2020 Vision | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...goes crazy. But what's fun onstage sometimes meanders a bit on record: a few jams are overlong, and Bush's electric forays lack the nonpareil quality of his acoustic performances. Still, these folks set the bar pretty high, and a song list that includes a hell-bent-for-leather take on Bill Monroe's "Big Mon" alongside Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" is probably as good a way as any to sum up the contagiously good time clearly being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Down the House | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

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