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And that's why there are, at the moment, no surefire female stars; Julia Roberts is on sabbatical, Jodie Foster had a low grosser (Little Man Tate) between two hits (The Silence of the Lambs and Sommersby), and Sharon Stone is not yet bankable. "It's been a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few Good Women | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

MARY POPPINS THOUGHT A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR made the medicine go down. Congress, though, insists on holding the sugar and swallowing a spoonful of deficit- cutting medicine first. The Clinton Administration had wanted the lawmakers to approve by mid-March about $16 billion in immediate additional expenditures in order to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold That Sugar! | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

Americans for the most part are enormously forgiving of wealth, remarkably tolerant of the gap between the rich and the poor in this country. But they reserve a special contempt for rich people who cheat. Outside Washington, the Baird story came across as an issue of people who play by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thumbs Down In the Zoe Baird case | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

Here in America it's not easy to find a nanny like Miss Poppins. For one thing, British accents are hard to come by. And no one seems to have that good, old-fashioned Mary Poppins common sense and stability.

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Mary Poppins Goes Slam Dancing | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

So much for the stereotype of Ivory-pure Utahans--or even the Mary Poppins ideal: this particular nanny was out until the wee hours slam dancing. With chimney sweeps, perhaps.

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Mary Poppins Goes Slam Dancing | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

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