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Some friends call him Buddha, and Soona has often called Vili "an old soul trapped in a young body." He has always seemed mature. In sixth grade, a couple of years ago, while classmates were writing poems that described themselves as lovers of "girls, baseball, ice cream...and MTV," Vili wrote that he was a "Lover of giving, faith, trust... Who likes to wear masks over his soul." He was just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matter Of Hearts | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

Does a good-looking messenger make the message clearer? ALEK WEK is the fashion industry's current darling, scoring the cover of Elle and MTV's model-of-the-year award. And now both the U.S. Committee for Refugees and aid organization World Vision have signed Wek up to wake people up to the plight of displaced families in Sudan, her war-torn homeland. She spent her 21st birthday appealing for help for a country where more civilians have died unnecessarily than in the conflicts in Somalia, the former Zaire and Bosnia combined. And while Wek may not be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...public place." Reacting to what appears to be the growing irrelevance of poetry in American culture, the big-hitters of American poetry will be coming out in droves to support the genre, a veritable LiveAid for the literary world. Aside from a brief spate of spoken-word spots on MTV, pop culture seems to have forsaken poetry altogether. Which makes us wonder, can a nationwide publicity blitz sway today's younger readers? What America really needs now is Courtney Love, wearing a diaphanous nightie, reading Czeslaw Milosz from the roof of the Viper Club. Now that would be something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREDITORIALS | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...used to the traditional all-American spring break. I remember standing with my friend looking over the balcony of a place called "The Zoo," watching everyone below bumping and grinding as lights flashed and smoke was injected onto the dance floor. I felt like an excerpt from an MTV Spring Break '98 Special, but it was a nice change. My biggest concerns for most of that week were whether the DJ would play the rap version of "Staying Alive" and whether I was tanning evenly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HALCYON DAYS | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...Want Our MTV...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Static Debate: College Considers Cable in Common Spaces | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

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