Word: sexier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, happens to be the release date of Emancipation. The first disc is mostly shimmery party music; the second is slower and sexier; the third draws from throbbing, dance-oriented techno. While a few of the new numbers, such as Let's Have a Baby, are as sharply winning as long-ago Prince smashes like Kiss and When Doves Cry, Emancipation is plagued with a lot of filler. In the end there are just too many middling songs. Still, listeners can indulge in a little emancipation of their own and make one great album out of this three...
Instead, it was given a reprieve--but there have been alterations. This season the brooding Benzali has been replaced by Anthony LaPaglia, whose new character, Jimmy Wyler, is younger, sexier and more emotionally accessible. Meanwhile, the show's ambitious concept of following a single case all season has been scuttled in favor of offering three separate trials that will last about six weeks each. Despite the changes, Bochco insists that the show has maintained its integrity. Says he: "We haven't dumbed it down...
These can be dizzying days for PC novices. By the time they've managed to install the latest software, it's already become yesterday's news, rendered obsolete by even sexier versions. Keeping up with that fast-food pace can become a full-time occupation. But Oil Change, a product that just hit stores from CyberMedia, a firm based in Santa Monica, California ($39.95; 800-721-7824), can take over the job itself. Oil Change works by connecting to a constantly maintained software database, automatically updating your PC with the latest versions and patches. The program indexes all the software...
...when Madonna released her dirty picture book, Sex, she seemed to be moving into self-destruct mode, finishing up her time in the spotlight as a parody of herself. The eroticism she hints at on Bedtime Stories is actually sexier than that of her more wanton songs and videos. Even if a more subdued Madonna is just another pose, it may help her win some of the respect she actually deserves. She is not a great singer, her songs are derivative, her public persona is tawdry. But she can make pretty good records. That's what her dirty little secret...
...managers. The incentive was particularly tempting for managers of conservative money- market and short-term bond funds who are forced to play the money game with a limited range of low-yielding investments like U.S. Treasury bills. Suddenly interest-only strips, which qualify as government-backed securities but have sexier returns, made managers look good. "It is very hard to stand above your peers in the government bonds and mortgage markets," says John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors. "So what you have to do is enhance your yields, and these derivatives do that...