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...season, some of it will be the shlock of recognition. With a gibe at anti Semitism here, a humorous insight into sexual hang-ups there, home screen entertainment is beginning to be a little less of a window on the void. It is becoming a little more of a mirror...
...interested. For the past six months, Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have rarely missed a chance to say what a huge mistake government controls of California energy costs would be. But the argument has been slapping up against an obvious political problem: Bush's free-market principles mirror the financial interests of his backers in the energy industry--top executives who are cashing in stock options for tens and hundreds of millions of dollars while their corporate profits are tripling. "The consequence of the inaction has been a massive transfer of wealth from the ordinary citizens of California...
There isn't an aspiring actress pouting before the bathroom mirror who wouldn't want what Shu Qi has. On any day, at any hour, almost anywhere in Asia, whether you're window-shopping, daydreaming in a bus or cruising the Internet, you're likely to see her face and the luxurious mouth that is its trademark. She's the poster girl for French fashion house Lanvin, beer babe for San Miguel and pitchwoman for Lux Soap, Coca-Cola (Japan) and Red Earth cosmetics (O.K., that contract just lapsed). In a six-year career, the 25-year-old Taiwanese seductress...
...loser.'" He needs a makeover. So at her urging, or to please her, Adam remakes himself. He cuts his hair, pumps up, slims down, stops biting his nails, gets contact lenses, even a nose job. He has her initials (E.A.T.) tattooed on his groin. He sees himself in the mirror of her appraising eyes; he wants to be a thing worthy of her love, as she already is of his. And she can't help being impressed: "I gave you a couple of ideas, and you're changing your entire life. I'm very proud...
...hold down jobs. I was big into either cutting myself or drinking a lot with aspirin, or taking a lot of poisons. I managed to hide those suicide attempts from my parents. When I'd wake up in the morning, I couldn't look at myself in the mirror...