Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complex, horizontally integrated empire of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is based on an almost insipid ethos: make life nicer and prettier. But implementation is not that simple. She says, "It took 100 years for someone to tell ordinary people in a doable manner not how to make an Escoffier or 100 amazing recipes that you will never do on a daily basis." Instead Stewart focuses on simple perfection. "I knew that the how-to would be my niche," she says. Adds her friend, dealmaker Ronald Perelman, the Revlon mogul: "I put her right up there as one of the most...
People have been getting naked in the movies on a regular basis for some 40 years now and mostly acting as if it were no big deal. That's understandable; embarrassment is anti-erotic, and besides, movie stars are prettier than we are. If you've got it, why shouldn't you flaunt...
Again, a tight race. Eighty percent of the last 20 winners have been the films with the most nominations in their year. That logic would favor The English Patient, with its potent combination of literate filmmaking, pretty pictures and even prettier stars. Secrets Lies and Fargo are not everyone's cup of tea, but those who like them love them. Jerry Maguire would normally be D.O.A. without a director nod, but don't underestimate the Marisa Tomei factor: studio output in a field of itchy new-wavism can pull off big surprises. Shine is easily the least accomplished film...
...ogling the Hollywood celebrities in town, she is trying to get a date for the big event of the Jewish social year, known as Ballyhoo. Reacting in various ways to her travails are her widowed mother; the unmarried uncle and widowed aunt who live with them; and her prettier, more socially assured cousin, home from Wellesley...
...elections. I am glad that I don't have to listen to all the commercials on the radio and television anymore. Now if the people who put up all the campaign signs in front of their houses and along the roadway would take them down, the nation would be prettier. If the candidates put all the money spent on the campaign toward the national debt, the nation would be well on its way to being debt free. JOANNA REAGAN Pepperell, Massachusetts...