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...Vice President-Elect Richard Cheney, who has more bypasses than the New Jersey Turnpike, seems to like to diet on the edge. Cheney attended the Wednesday lunch for moderate Republicans hosted by Sen. Arlen Specter in his Capitol hideaway. Spector and the other members of the "Mod Squad," as they're nicknamed - Sen. Susan M. Collins of Maine, Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont, and Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island - ordered salads and fruit. Cheney dug into a plate of fried chicken. Has anyone briefed him on cholesterol...
Talk about rude awakenings. When Omar Epps caught an early screening of The Mod Squad last year, he hoped for at least a modest success. After all, he had trounced many of Hollywood's hot young black actors and even a few rap stars for the spot opposite Claire Danes and Giovanni Ribisi in this Gen X version of the cult TV series. Once the screening began, however, Epps quickly lost interest and shut his eyes to escape the boredom. "I fell asleep," he recalls. "When I finally woke up, I looked around and said, 'S___, this movie is gonna...
1970s Italy A mod combo of platform and heel...
...Waddell to define her style and without the flutter of an eyelash she unrolls a crisp definition: a combination of Mary Quant, Monrian, '60s mod and Versace. She likes to use polyesters because they wash easily and vinyls even though they don't. She looks for combinations of colors and textures on the right side of flashy-bright and spectacular without being glitzy. She can be quite experimental in her choice of materials, constructing pants and jackets from yellow caution tape or police line. Despite the repetitive warnings of these pieces, Waddell's clothing crosses artistic boundaries, erring even into...
...while the traditional, often spiritually based versions of bod-mod are quickly disappearing among indigenous peoples, the impulses behind personal adornment remain unchanged: attracting a mate, signaling status, declaring allegiance to a group...