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...born in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, on Oct. 29, 1929, and is said to never have known his father, who by some accounts perished during the Stalinist purges of 1937. His parents seem to have separated before this, and Primakov was brought up in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, where his mother Anna was a gynecologist attached to a local textile factory. The family home was a 14-sq-m room in a kommunalka--a communal apartment where kitchen and toilet facilities were shared by a number of families. He left Tbilisi for Moscow in the late 1940s...
...missing from most fashion-magazine covers, replaced by movie starlets. She's all but gone from top advertising campaigns, beaten out by anonymous, awkward-looking teenagers. She has virtually disappeared from runways, her asking price too dear. Even rock stars don't seem eager to date her anymore. A little glamour has left the world. And so the world mourns, its makeup runny from tears...
Even the supermodels themselves seem bored. In Milan last month, Schiffer talked briefly about quitting modeling to concentrate on her acting career. Romijn is already distancing herself from her modeling background. "I don't like modeling that much," she says. "It's been a great trip, but straight print modeling is so mindless." How far has the stock of modeling fallen? Kate Moss once dated Johnny Depp, and Cindy Crawford was married to Richard Gere; Romijn's husband is John Stamos...
...Collins, those tactics seem to have been successful. On her last day at S.A.F.E., her voice is strong and her dark eyes shimmer with hope. "I don't believe I'm cured," she says. "But I feel like I have a choice not to do this. And I have a choice now to let myself feel...
...Look at TV advertising. The innocent kids with beads and flowers who once provided amusement have mutated into digital doods and tough grrls with nose rings and attitudes. Viewers recognize that today's teenagers aren't the young conservatives of the Reagan era. The kids are starting to seem countercultural again; we just haven't verbalized...