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Your connecting flight has been delayed another three hours, and you feel as if you are getting a lavender tan from the lighting. You are buzzed on cardboard coffee and too woozy from an airborne snackoid served on your incoming flight to risk alcohol. But do you despair? Of course you do. Do you give up? Certainly, by reaching into your flight bag and withdrawing one of this season's airport novels. You know the kind. Literary wide-bodies with plenty of plot that allow you to leave the real world in the first half paragraph and stay away through...
...attractions. MCA Records is a hit factory with platinum stars that include Tom Petty, Bobby Brown and Fine Young Cannibals. In book publishing, the company owns G.P. Putnam's Sons, which has had best sellers with Tom Clancy's The Cardinal of the Kremlin and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club...
Still, whatever progress is made during the next few years in fighting skin cancer, the best therapy will remain prevention, especially in childhood and the teens, when most of the damage is done. To Americans long indoctrinated with the notion that a tan look is a healthy look, this means that instead of worshiping the sun, they had better begin respecting...
...They were big, fast, blonde and tan...
Fitting in can be a traumatic, sometimes infuriating experience. Amy Tan, author of the best-selling novel The Joy Luck Club, recalls being ashamed that her homelife was not quite that of her white peers. "The Chinese food was wonderful when it was family," she remembers. "But when my friends came over, I was embarrassed." Selling movie projects in Hollywood, director Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing, Eat a Bowl of Tea) finds some studio executives "patronizing or confused." Says he: "If you speak English with a French accent, they say, 'That's cute.' But if you speak it with...