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...romance aside for a day. If you want your marriage to outlast the Ricky Martin craze, ask your future spouse some tough questions. Most simmering differences can be defused by talk before they heat to a boil. But if you run into a pig-headed partner who feels the family finances are none of your business, consider it a deal breaker. You are bound to discover that your priorities have not been taken seriously. And if your fiance lies in a big way about personal assets or debts, don't go anywhere near a church. Such seeds of mistrust will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prenup Audit | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...data suggest creatine is safe enough. There is some controversy over whether it causes diarrhea, cramping or dehydration. And there have been no long-term studies to show what happens over five, 10 or 15 years. If you still want to be a guinea pig, hook up with a knowledgeable trainer who can monitor your condition. But remember: the only sure way to improve your batting is to get out there and knock the ball around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muscle Candy | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Lionel, prolific composers from Hollywood's golden middle age--would have every reason to be proud of their nephew Randy. This year he was nominated for Oscars in three categories: dramatic score (for Pleasantville), musical or comedy score (A Bug's Life) and song (That'll Do, from Babe: Pig in the City). And since he lost in all three categories, as he did the nine previous times he was nominated, Randy Newman might feel a strange satisfaction as well: he's been writing about bitter losers and empty hallways since the Beatles had bowl haircuts. Newman's four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bad Love Is Good News | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...PIG SPENDER Congress never met a bill it couldn't stuff with special spending programs. The emergency appropriations bill for NATO's attack on Yugoslavia is particularly porky. Some of the "emergencies" that seem the least urgent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pork Talk | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...other shows, so that "the star of the afternoon soap opera The Naked and the Damned (formerly Trailer Park) would appear as a contestant on the game show Quacks like a Duck." Or, in one of the book's funniest running motifs, the transplantation of a pig liver into the female protagonist's father, a Hollywood hustler of exceptional charm and exceptional coarseness. (Son-in-law to daughter: "You had a whole childhood to get nauseated by show biz. I was vulgarity-deprived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Isn't It Post-Ironic? | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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