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...Marky Mark's raps were as limp as the tongues of old sneakers, addressing subjects like peace and resisting drugs and blah blah blah with all the force of an NBC "The More You Know" public service announcement. His Calvin Klein ads were racy, but in a courteous, folded-napkin sort of way, all rounded pecs and flat abs, clean living and bright smiles. In Boogie Nights, Wahlberg gets real and raunchy: his character masturbates for money, has on-camera sex, snorts coke, robs houses and delivers a monologue with a 13-in. prosthetic penis hanging between his legs. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MARKY MARK'S NEW RAP | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...everything," Vasily continued, "our economy, our affairs, our poor lives." He pushed himself away from the table, yanking the end of the tablecloth he had mistaken for a napkin and tucked into his trousers. As plates flew through the air and exploded on the floor all around him, a wheel of black bread bounced onto its edge and rolled slowly out the kitchen door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE AFTER MIR | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...Marc had dinner with Flinn and Thompson and another couple after a soccer game on June 30. She recalls Flinn and Thompson flirting, joking about marriage. "She said, 'Where's my ring?' and held out her hand," Gayla remembers. Thompson fashioned a paper ring out of a napkin, and he put it on Flinn's hand. Gayla says Thompson had drunk too much to drive home, so after dinner Flinn drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX IN THE MILITARY: WINGS OF DESIRE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...whispered and joked on the dais, Elizabeth Fentress, the luncheon's organizer, says, "you might have thought they were old friends from high school." After lunch Helms draped his napkin over his arm like a waiter, grabbed the dessert tray from the center of the table and walked around to where Albright was sitting. "Madame Ambassador, may I serve you some dessert?" he said with a bow. By the time he escorted her to the airport that evening, they looked like they were on a date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MANY LIVES OF MADELEINE | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...result of his hardscrabble upbringing and his war wounds, Dole is a man who trusts in the concrete, the empirical, a man who distrusts philosophizing and grand theory. Economics is not an imaginary curve scrawled on a napkin, but nickels and dimes plunked in a glass jar. Dole's 15% tax cut is his one big idea (the symbol of less government and more individuality), but he is so uncomfortable with it that he has trouble keeping it at the forefront of his campaign, not to mention persuading voters that he actually believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHEN FOXES POSE AS HEDGEHOGS | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

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