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...Cheetos. In addition to frying the occasional peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich, Smith has been caught on camera putting Cheez Whiz on a pickle. At the go-cart place, Smith, on the second day of her diet, attempts to eat a piece of celery, which she tries to peel. If you catch only one episode of her show, I'm guessing it should be the one in which the E!-recommended nutritionist is scheduled to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Anna Goes Prime Time | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...house without a bottle of water, even if in a well-air conditioned car—they overheat (I learned this the hard way a few miles outside of town). I always keep Chap Stick and moisturizing lotion with me, following a few painful days of split lips and peeling fingers. And by no means will every sunburn turn into a golden tan—it may peel and leave your New England skin as pale as always. The backbones of Las Vegas’ economy—the megacasinos—capitalize on the heat perfectly. These billion-dollar...

Author: By Michael A. Capuano, | Title: Sweat, Campaigning In Vegas | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

...good thing too, because let me tell you something, folks: peel back the inside information, the hands washing each other, the corruption and the greed, and Wall Street is still, at its heart, a high-stakes crapshoot. And nobody craves advice, good or bad, like gamblers. It gives them some sense of intelligence - and gives them someone to blame when they lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Analyzing the Analysts | 5/8/2002 | See Source »

...Make-a-Wish Foundation fund raisers as he is on the Howard Stern Show--is a task worthy of a French semiotician. He represents the postmillennial celebrity--a simulated character overlaying other simulated characters. This is The Rock's secret and perhaps ultimate persona: the Onion. Let others peel away the skin to find another skin beneath. Just ensure that every layer is as tasty as the one before and America will cry for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rock Is An Onion | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...could not be hairy. Due to the sheer length and volume of my leg hair, a lawn mower would have been easier to use than my Gillette Mach 3. The night before the pageant, as I stood naked in the bathtub, warm water running, I watched inch-long hairs peel off into a watery mélange of foamy white shaving cream and occasional drops of blood. I awkwardly maneuvered my body as I shaved the rear of my thighs, only breaking more skin in my futile attempt to be careful and precise. An analgesic layer of lotion, though, assuaged...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The True Confessions of Miss Harvard | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

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