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...alone as well, thank you very much. Lesser-known Lopez is incredibly appealing--she might play a lousy employee, but she plays a great human being. And George Clooney is, well, George Clooney, but, instead of choosing the easy way out and smirking through the film to make women swoon, he turns in as nicely nuanced a performance as his role allows. Stat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clooney's Latest Makes Great Date Material | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

...heroine, whom she likens to Ally McBeal, is Veronica ("Call Me Nikki") Chase, a flirtatious economics professor who knows how to make Adam Smith go down easy. Chase ghost-writes articles for the Times, crunches numbers for a prestigious campus committee and still finds time to swoon over her dishy ex, Dante. But she wields her entitlement with refreshing honesty, describing herself as a light-skinned "bourgeoisie" black who "had grown up and gone to white schools and didn't believe in unduly upsetting white people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder, They Wrote | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

Gordeeva was but 11, a slip of a girl, when she and fellow Muscovite Sergei Grinkov first skated together. They would swoon their way to four world championships and take Olympic gold in 1988 and again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After The Glory | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...Long-winded proposal included Proverbs 12: 4 ("A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones") and the more swoon-inducing Proverbs 31: 10 ("A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 22, 1997 | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...time the stock market has taken a hit, you've made big money if you jumped in with both feet. A "buy the dips" philosophy has outperformed any other strategy imaginable. When will this faultless method let us down? When should we be scared to take advantage of a swoon and instead take a powder and lock in the gains of the greatest bull market of all time? Oddly, we have the answer. It's just been obscured by the big event known as the Crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STICK WITH THE DIPS | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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