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...Until we were unleashed into the outer hallway housing the exhibit, we had to find our eye candy in the spectacles that filled neighboring chairs. The rogue with the shag hairdo and glittery eye shadow sucking on a kumquat while boasting to his friends that he'd worn "everything Comme des Garons" in honor of the occasion and the older gentleman with a serious dark suit festooned with flaming red slippers enlivened the bland demeanor of an audience mostly clad in stuffy black apparel or Harvard student Abercrombie gear. The former was understandable; after all, "Rei invented black...

Author: By Amber K. Lavicka, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: making friends | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...behaving badly (in a PG-13 way, of course) and to grownups who wish they could. Soon after the video was released, catchphrases like "Shagadelic!" and "Oh, behave!" caught on in schoolyards and trendy cocktail lounges alike. "I can't walk past a construction site without having 'Fancy a shag?' yelled at me," says Elizabeth Hurley, who co-starred in the first film and has a cameo in the sequel. Laughs Roach: "So many women have blamed us for giving men pickup lines. In the era of sexual harassment, I hope it's good for mankind to use a line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Austin's Power | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...think of it as cable. AT&T wants you to view that innocuous coaxial wire tacked beneath the shag as a gateway to the digital future, one through which phone calls, faxes, e-mail, news, movies and entertainments as yet unimagined will stream into your home, the gigabytes of information flowing seamlessly into your collection of computers, televisions and telephones. And at the end of the month, for all that, AT&T will be sending you one bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ma Everything! | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...Last year the average REIT stock sank 17% while the Standard & Poor's 500 soared 27%, and REITs' dismal showing has extended into early 1999. Never have REITs lagged the market by such a wide margin. They're more out of favor than a home with peeling paint and shag carpets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheap Real Estate | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...decades of feminist screaming and offer his friend the sexy runaway (young Oscar-winner Anna Paquin) he's found in an elevator as a `pet.' There's Mickey (Kevin Spacey), Eddie's best friend, whose overtreated platinum blond hair is a testament to the excess that leads him to shag woman after woman...

Author: By Francesca Petrosino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HURLYBURLY | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

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