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...lamp and checks on the model sitting in a briefcase, some advertiser's latest ploy to sell a car. The model starts to sweat and after a few hours an awful odor fills the studio. By the end of the shoot, the model, half cooked by the lights, sits rotten and decomposed in the suitcase. Lesson: when the job calls for a salmon sitting in luggage, a photographer needs a model with very little personality: a model made of plastic...

Author: By Carlin E. Wing, | Title: Don't Drink the Water...Or Eat the Sushi | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...does take over the room, stay tolerant by staying absent. Above all, be very, very cautious upon hearing the disclaimer "I don't really know her that well." There is truth to the old saying that houseguests, like fish, start to stink after three days. Some of them arrive rotten...

Author: By Carlin E. Wing, | Title: Uninvited Guest | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

Solution: Quickly play it off in your favor by paraphrasing another Shakespeare work, "PeeYew, something smelleth rotten in Denmark," or just break entirely from the dialogue and say, "God I hope I didn't just shit myself!" The crowd will most likely go nuts with hilarity and you will get congrats for weeks on your good save. If your theater teacher gives you any beef, chalk it up to artistic license--he'll love you for your courage to break new dramatic barriers...

Author: By Dan L. Gruenberg, | Title: under pressure | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...average teenage boy chugs 3 1/3 cans a day--more than 110 gal. a year. Girls aren't much better: they guzzle 2 1/3 cans daily. In fact, kids today drink twice as much soda as milk; 20 years ago the reverse was true. The possible fallout: fat kids, rotten teeth and brittle bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Nov. 2, 1998 | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...Rotten, wasn't it? People did what they were supposed to do, not what they deeply, truly needed to. It was a time of confinement: those wire bras were a chastity belt for bosoms. Haircuts were part of the hypocrisy--boys couldn't hide their ears, but they could, had to, suppress their liveliest instincts. It was the long night of the living dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shading the Past | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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