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...Cleopatra found her way onto the silver screen even before cinema had sound. In 1917, Theda Bara starred-in harem girl get-up-in a silent-film version of Cleopatra. Seventeen years later, Claudette Colbert had the title role, and Hollywood waged an all-out publicity campaign to encourage female moviegoers to adopt the "Cleopatra look." Many copied Colbert's dark bangs after hearing her declaim, following the seduction of Antony: "I've seen a god come to life. I'm no longer a queen. I'm a woman...
...there are lockers in old-age homes, there are going to be some very happy lady seniors. 16 magazine (which is kinda like Tiger Beat and kinda like Seventeen, but not really as successful as either) usually fills its pages with the hottest teen stars. This month the editors decided to go a different way. A REGIS PHILBIN way. "How old are you?" Regis asks me over the phone, before saying hello. I am 28. "You are finished. I'm the only one in there who's over 28. These young studs who've been getting all the press better...
...terrifying of dragonladies, Anne Robinson. The effect, of course, is wonderfully comical. Robinson’s sneers, biting barbs, and unmerciful teasing seems to suggest that we’re back to pre-1776 America (Oh, this is totally random, but I once heard of a porn movie called Seventeen-Seventy-Sex: The Declaration of In-the-Panties. Cute, no?). Only this time—both because the contestants are uniformly moronic and because all the responses to Robinson’s quips seem to be edited out—there will be no Battle of Bunker Hill and certainly...
...February 3 loss to Penn, the Crimson squad has gone on to win seven consecutive meets by a combined score 241-45, including an impressive 24 pins. The highlight of this streak was a commanding 28-13 win over Cornell--the first Crimson victory over the Big Red in seventeen years...
...Seventeen of the 21 women at a weekly meeting of regular borrowers in Uganda care for AIDS orphans. Five are AIDS widows. "I used to buy just one or two bunches of bananas to sell. Now I buy 40, 50, 60," says Elizabeth Baluka, 47, the group's secretary. "Every week I put aside a little bit of money to help my children slowly by slowly...