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Smith bought his modest home in Wilmington in 1964. In 1970, at age 44, he married. His wife Carolyn worked at a neighborhood florist. "I was living good, having a good time," Smith told TIME, "giving my wife everything she needed. Tried to make her happy...
...laws need to be toughened to reverse the sharp growth in filings during the 1990s. While bankruptcy cases did indeed rise through 1998, they fell in 1999. But what Congress and credit-card companies neglected to say was that the increase was largely attributable to one group--women with modest or low incomes. For this group, reform is going to be especially...
...Griffith created Intolerance, a four-part movie set in different ages, all stories converging at the climax. Figgis is more modest: he has four interlocking sketches of show-biz life (all shot simultaneously), one for each quadrant of a split screen. The mood is tres California: four earthquakes and a dying man taking a cell-phone call! When things go slack, you can stare at some of the world's most watchable women (Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Leslie Mann, Golden Brooks). But this spectacle of strenuous improvising is more stunt than true experiment. Nice try, folks. Now go back...
...recently redone but still stark Gund Hall. The casual attendee yearned for a supermodel or two strutting down the aisles catwalk-style in some of Comme des Garon's many flamboyant ensembles to spice up the uneventful award presentation. Those organizing the affair declined to show even modest visual accouterments such as slides, preferring instead to let the exhibit, which the award show inaugurated, speak for itself...
...born in Washington but grew up in various towns in Maryland, was just 18 when her first album, Mya, was released. After the modest success of that album, a follow-up single, Ghetto Supastar (on which she performed alongside Pras of the hip-hop group the Fugees), from the sound track to the Warren Beatty movie Bulworth, landed her in near constant rotation...