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...with such intellectually stimulating questions as "What do you think about people who do drugs?" and "How important is sex to you?" The questionnaire is meant only to be supplementary, though, to the 10-minute video that each applicant has to submit, for which the producers recommend, "Don't overthink...

Author: By Josh N. Lambert, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some Literature for the Illiterate: The MTV Generation Hits the Books | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...PEOPLE magazine. Two months later, she agreed to marry a fellow crash survivor. Now "after much thought and consideration" --and seven months of togetherness--she is separating from that man, real estate developer RICK TAUBMAN, whose son she bore but eight weeks ago. Apart from Brinkley's tendency to overthink issues, it's unclear why her third marriage went sour, although there's ugly talk that money is an issue. Musings from the model's mind don't shed much light. "Life is short," she told PEOPLE at the time of her nuptials. "Ricky and I want to be together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1995 | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

After their return to California and civilization, they had a letter from Frau Wittmer. "My dear friends," she wrote, "before you come back to the Galápagos, do it overthink one hundred times." Having overthought it, the Conways went back last winter, are now ensconced again on their favorite island, Santiago. They remembered the raptures of a friend: "Santiago air is cool and fresh, it rains plenty, and everywhere are pigs. Here is a pig, there is a pig, under every tree is a pig! It is just like paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Like Paradise | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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