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Most stars prefer to summer in places other than Moscow, so a bona fide celebrity gets noticed. And Richard Gere has been noticed ducking out early from screenings at the film festival he's attending, kissing a woman called "Masha" onstage at the festival's opening, and getting a police citation for fishing illegally...

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

Think you're too smart for this one? As if. Be Clueless for awhile, and find out why high school virgins now prefer to be called "hymenally challenged," and why your driving instructor is "the absolute Messiah...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: You're Not Too Smart For Clueless, the Surprise Comedy Hit of the Summer | 8/1/1995 | See Source »

...artist whose legend as wit, dandy and aesthetic kamikaze--for what was his libel suit against the critic John Ruskin but a suicide mission, compelled by his own claims to "Southern honor"?--continued after his death and became a barrier to appraisal of his work. One would prefer to think that Whistler the artist flies free of Whistler the celebrity, the "personality." Not so. On one hand, his pose as a self-constructed man remains as fiercely impressive as Oscar Wilde's. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"--he did that long before Muhammad Ali was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: WHISTLER UNVEILED | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...matter of revolution?" or "Mysticism wasn't meant to be public, was it?" The result is a series of earnest one-on-one interviews that promote just those traits the contemporary poetry scene least needs to encourage: its solemn exhibitionism, its squishy mysticism, its self-absorption of the I-prefer-pencils-to-pens sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: I'M ED, AND I'M A POET | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

...real. or, as the politicians prefer to put it, let's look at the record -- actually analyze the movies Bob Dole praised and condemned in his anti-Hollywood hissy fit. Here, the movies he blithely cited as "friendly to the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO, BUT HE READ THE POLLS | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

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