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...within camera range, Senator Bob Smith changed his seat from the third row to the second. The neatest desk belonged to Lott, fitting for a man who presses his shirts after they come back from the laundry. He's so efficient he called for a 15-min. break before poor Representative Ed Bryant had actually finished speaking. The press section, fearing that perhaps we were not witnessing the trial of the century, was relieved when Dominick Dunne, the reporter of record for the previous trial of the century, in Los Angeles, finally arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boredom of Proof | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...specific about how you're going to keep your resolutions. Instead of vaguely promising "to exercise more," decide to take a 30-min. walk at lunchtime three days a week. Or instead of saying you'll eat less fat, make up your mind to bring your lunch to work. (By the way, you don't have to condemn yourself to carrots and celery sticks only. Just preparing your own food can cut hundreds of calories from the typical American diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diet: Try, Try Again | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...ticket for months, is the life story of a transsexual rock star, told in the form of an autobiographical nightclub act. De La Guarda's circus-like theater piece, Villa Villa, features performers who swoop and soar on cables above the audience (which stands during the entire 60-min. spectacle). "These shows are reinventing theatrical language," says David Binder, a De La Guarda co-producer, "for an audience that thought the theater had nothing to say to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Children of Rent | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...retired in 1985, reigned as supreme master of that most singular marketing device--the stunt. Highlights: he sold an icebox to an Eskimo on behalf of the American Ice Manufacturers Association. He personally hatched an ostrich egg by sitting on it for 19 days, 4 hrs. and 32 min., on behalf of the 1947 movie The Egg and I. For producer David Merrick, whose Broadway show The Matchmaker needed a little extra coverage, he dressed an orangutan in a chauffeur's suit and set the creature at the wheel of a specially rigged taxi. With Moran steering from the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy And In Charge | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Highlights--$85+ Perms--$75+ Colors--$35+ 60-40 female-male 6 Strongly Recommended N/A Great Cuts One Eliot Sq. M-F 9-9 Sa 9-6 Su 10-6 $9.95 for a basic cut Shampoo--add $3 Blow Dry--add $4-$7 More male than female 12 No 15 min. - 1 hr., longest on weekends Gino's 20 Holyoke St. Tu 9-5 W-F 8:30-5:30 Sa 8:30-4 $40-$55 wash, cut and dry Cuts by experts run higher--$80-$95 Colors--$55--$250 Perms--$75+ Makeup--$35 Most female, some male 20 Recommended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUTTING EDGE: THE SALONS OF HARVARD SQUARE | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

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