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Like so many actors bred in Australia, she has the gift of slipping into any character, any accent, and looking, sounding comfortable in it. She can play smart people in stupid situations, like the reporter walking into endless psychic booby traps in the hit thriller The Ring. This can't be a plate of supernatural baloney, the audience thought, because she's feeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Performances | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...workshop, followed by nine private therapy sessions costing $1,260, which Gottman recommends as a supplement. These attempt to conquer the four most common, corrosive negative factors in unstable unions: criticism (You never ... You always ... ), defensiveness (Who me? I'm not defensive), contempt (You're too stupid to realize how defensive you are) and stonewalling (I'll just let it blow over). Gottman says 85% of stonewallers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Marriage Savers | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...psyched on until she told me I was "self-accepting," at which point I realized she didn't know what she was talking about. But she did have some great sex advice. She thought the books of "sex coupons" and grrreat invitations I saw on Amazon were stupid. "The minute you start playing games with sex, what do you do the next night? If it works, she is going to say, 'What do you have in mind next?'" Just the idea of that kind of pressure scared me, mostly because it sounded suspiciously like tricking me into foreplay. Instead, Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Spicing It Up | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...magazine--a world-famous white rapper uttering a racist phrase--yet somehow it isn't. Eminem has already issued an apology, explaining that the tape is 10 years old and he made it just after breaking up with an African-American girlfriend. "I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was," he said. Almost all the hip-hop community has accepted Eminem's contrition as sincere, and outrage has boomeranged on the questionable journalistic judgment of Mays and The Source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Source of Discomfort | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...country to be using this money for. We have too many homeless, hungry and unemployed people whom this money could go to in order to help them. There are so many good things to use this money for instead of going to the moon and Mars... please, curb stupid spending now. Carol Griffin Rhode Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should astronauts go back to the moon and to Mars? | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

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