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...Bowe's tendency to shrug at life, the way he did when he failed to bring home a gold medal from the 1988 Seoul Olympics -- well, don't be fooled. Bowe is not the latest in the line of adolescents in oversized bodies who have populated boxing. In fact, what distinguishes him is an early, singularly mature decision to be, as he says, "different." In this course he relied in part on his mother Dorothy, who alone ruled an unruly household of 13 children in a New York City war zone with such edifying comments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like...Ali: RIDDICK BOWE | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

That sucks. Sounds like a case of really bad timing to me. You have two options: a)shrug your shoulders, hold your head up high, and tell yourself "Daryl" picked the wrong person and who cares anyway. Or, b) tell yourself, "Daryl's girlfriend be damned! I'm going after him, `taken' or not! Full speed ahead!" Good luck, dear...

Author: By Norma Knows, | Title: Why does she have to be me for Halloween? | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...York society of the 1870s, Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a true romantic gentleman. He is romantic because he wants to shrug off the opera cape of domestic respectability and follow his heart to hell with the Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). He is a gentleman because, having already declared his love to pretty May Welland (Winona Ryder), he is bound to behave honorably. He knows that when passion and propriety collide, only bitter defeat may rise from the wreckage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Fellow in Old New York | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...spots that require a minimum of clothing and a maximum of sunscreen. They shop madly and stand in long lines at the cheese counter, are figure conscious and sports crazy, and see their doctors regularly. But if you ask a German how he's doing, the response is a shrug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most Happy Nation | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...Doug's ramblings with his sawed-off, he has peppered his neighborhood with shotgun pellets. He can't explain why he shot the dog. "What does it matter?" he asks with a shrug. Late one evening last March, he and a few friends crept up to a house and took several potshots. "I saw this dog sitting on a couch in this big window above the front porch, so I just shot him." Doug's expression is devoid of remorse or bravado as he drives by the brown, two-story house, recounting the incident one afternoon. A teenage girl with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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