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...Being a gifted populist artist as well as (his word) a "tittenfilmer," Meyer didn't simply display acres of swollen flesh; he vigorously tilled that fertile field. His top-heavy starlets grunted and hove in aerobicized ecstasy, exhorting their pale male swains to "Strap me on!" Meyer's oeuvre was all about sex: getting it, revering it, suffering for it, joking about it and, mostly, staring at it. He achieved what, John Berger has written, is the essence of cinema: Men looking at women. Women with pontoon protuberances...
...rocks are in. Today's trendiest fashion houses are studding pants, blouses, bags and belts with enough of them to fill a quarry. A Bill Blass evening gown is strewn with coral beads; Valentino adorns a pants-and-top set with turquoise and coral; and the extra-wide strap on Marni's messenger bag is festooned with rhinestones...
...Anderton, his complex, haunted character in Minority Report, is irresistible. In Spielberg's sci-fi mystery, Cruise stars as a seemingly stalwart cop in 2054 who heads an elite squad known as Precrime. Using a trio of psychic mutants called precogs, he can detect a murder before it happens, strap on a jet pack, then arrest the would-be perpetrator. But Anderton leads a double life, scoring a drug called neuroin in dark alleys, seeking oblivion after the unraveling of his family. Based on a 1956 short story by Philip K. Dick, the movie takes off when Anderton is accused...
...Winners EVEL KNIEVEL Elderly daredevil to defy death again. Instead of jumping buses, he'll strap rockets to his walker and try to jump the buffet line at Sizzler GARY KASPAROV Chess master beats 15-year-old, wins Moscow Grand Prix. Great, but was it necessary to spike the king and do the Icky Shuffle on the board? BRUCE ARENA U.S. coach's team beats Portugal. 280 million Americans are still trying to figure out why they don't just pick up the ball and run with it Losers NICHOLAS TSE Hunky Canto-pop star charged with perverting justice...
...WEARABLE STROLLER Last year Maclaren brought out a $2,000 titanium stroller. So this year's model, the Volo, which uses the same aluminum found in high-end racing bikes and has a strap on the back for carrying, is a steal...