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...this Friday the 13th, while the rest of the world goes about its business, my gambling kin and I must pause in religious devotion. Lady Fortune is the gambler's muse, and we cannot disrespect her holy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confessions of a Gambling Addict | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

Beene has managed to stay in business through the support of intensely devoted clients who care little about looking like someone else. Journalist Amy Fine Collins, Beene's muse, has worn his clothes exclusively for the past 10 years because the design is "so strong, so graphic, so precise." Beene dresses women of means but not, as he puts it, "the bonbon and Pekingese type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Poetics Of Style | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...MUSE Medicated Urethral System for Erection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 8, 1997 | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

There are some examples of successful near-absolute monarchies. For instance, in Monaco, Prince Rainier reigns supreme and uncontested, his principality in the spotlight since he married the late Hollywood actress and Hitchcock muse, Grace Kelly. In this tiny Mediterranean country the size of New York City's Central Park, to be Monegasque is to lead a tax-and-crime-free life. Monegasques appreciate the fact that it is only the Monegasque princely family that keeps Monaco intact since once the family dies out, Monaco reverts to France...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, | Title: The Despotic Monarch | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...most of the world, Gloria Estefan is a pop superstar, the goddess of salsa, the muse of Miami. But in the city dubbed Little Havana because of its large Cuban-exile population, Estefan, 40, is more than that. She is the emotion-laden embodiment of the Cuban-American dream. Her family fled Castro's communist regime when she was just two years old, and today thousands of Cuban exiles celebrate her success as though it were their own. Gloria, they exult, is the "glory" of Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURNING THE BEAT AROUND | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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