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Jack and Miles are ideal opposites. Miles is nerdy and needy, analyzing every sip of wine, fretting over every impulse, convinced that he's too insignificant a writer even to kill himself: "Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf--you can't commit suicide until you're published." Jack, whose fluorescent grin almost distracts from his fading good looks, still believes he has It. ("I get chicks lookin' at me all the time, all ages. Dudes too.") With a true actor's magnificent focus and minute attention span, he's so in the moment than he can convince himself of anything, including that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Sweet Sip of a Dark Vintage | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...floral element to the nose,” White said, inhaling the faint aromas. She completed the process by taking a little sip of the wine, which she said was “very dry”— indicating it had a low sugar content...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Wine Trade, Experience and Taste Trump Age | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...clear whose telling of Islam will prevail. Will it be the moderation extolled by vast Islamic organizations like Muhammadiyah? The wildly popular entrepreneurship of Aa Gym, whose immaculately clad staff hand out glossy brochures in the gardens of his pesantren-cum-business headquarters while visitors sip on the celebrity preacher's own brand of soft drink? Will it be the dogma of Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia - set up by accused terrorist leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to lobby for Islamic sharia law - whose members sell Osama bin Laden T shirts outside a shabby office in Yogyakarta? Or will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Neighbors | 9/7/2004 | See Source »

...three-stringed sanshin and makes an entry in his diary, as he has every night for the past decade. "This way," he says, "I won't forget my Chinese characters. It's fun. It keeps my mind sharp." For a nightcap he may have a sip of the wine he makes from aloe, garlic and tumeric. And as he drifts off, he says, "my head is filled with all the things I want to do tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Live To Be 100 | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...York's Canal Street, counterfeit luxury goods can be found online and in malls, and have even turned up at discount chains such as Daffy's, based in Secaucus, N.J. Among the ladies-who-lunch crowd, purse parties, where guests buy inexpensive fakes in private homes while they sip champagne, are the latest trend. With all this fun, cheap merchandise, why buy the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purse-Party Blues | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

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