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...result of driving with the California sun constantly bombarding my face. (Seems my chic metal sunglasses had been channeling the sun onto one spot.) This time he uses a different, less powerful laser. Surprise--there's barely any pain! Within days there is also no sign of the stupid blotch that had been bothering me for years. I'm getting to like these lasers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetic Surgery: Light Makes Right | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...Home for Boys he was choking on a flood of words and impulses in need of release. "Language bubbled inside me now, the frozen sea melting, but it felt too dangerous to let out." Over the next 15 years Minna encouraged Essrog to speak (in shouts, non sequiturs, stupid riddles) and taught him the new vocabulary of belonging. Essrog and his buddies became Minna Men--detectives who knew how to follow Minna's orders blindly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wordplay | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...good." They lasted less than a year. They're back and desperately searching for new projects. Case #2: Anthony Hopkins whined last year that "I've got to get out because acting is very bad for one's mental health. I have wasted my life. To hell with this stupid show business." He promptly signed on for a role in the film version of Titus Andronicus, will reprise his role as Hannibal Lechter soon after and has been seen cavorting at parties and premieres almost every weekend. Case #3: Liam Neeson claimed that he had gotten sick of acting after...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the [K]now | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley H. Hoffmann agreed that "we have a brilliant junior faculty, and when such nation-wide searches put them on top, it would be unfair and stupid not to give them tenure...

Author: By Lisa B. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Professors Granted Rare Internal Tenures | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

Mostly I want to say that Jedediah Purdy is a funny name. And also that his argument that irony is poisoning our culture is really stupid. That's the kind of argument we ironists use. We also use idiot and scalawag. But ironically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Irony | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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