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A rung below these dream and scream queens are such hardworking actresses as lissome Maria Ford, 25, who has made 40 DTVs (Burial of the Rats, Naked Obsession) in eight years but says she earned less than $25,000 last year. "You have to love to act," she says. "The...
It took 15 years, however, for Mahler to grow into an obsession. In the meantime, Kaplan had founded the investment magazine that made his fortune, and thus had the financial underpinning for what seemed an impossible leap: from Mahler fan to Mahler interpreter. "At age 40, I woke up one...
BOOKS . . . THE POWER OF BEAUTY: Reading Nancy Friday's the Power of Beauty (HarperCollins; 589 pages; $27.50) can make one very self-conscious. Provoked by the author1s analysis of feminine self-loathing, the haunting doubts creep in, says TIME's Wendy Wasserstein. What do I look like perusing this book...
For me, it was worth one summer without an internship (another American obsession) to gain a new perspective on my own country. I recommend, without reservation, taking the time to see a different culture. Sometimes it takes a trip across an ocean to understand what you left behind.
Are we that superficial? Do we really care so much about how we look? We certainly do. I need not launch another campaign against Calvin Klein to make the point that thinness is in. Whether we like it or not, in this country, a weight craze is increasingly widespread. While...