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...matter. We controlled the ball for the first few minutes, and I had a chance to work on a tan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramural Glory | 10/5/1996 | See Source »

Unless she is Hedy Tan, 46, a psychotherapist who has volunteered to run a Rules support group in Chicago. "All I suggest is, don't question it, just do it," she says. "Some therapists will think the Rules are dishonest and manipulative," the book warns, but Tan and other Rules Girls insist that playing hard to get empowers them. "I am weeding out the losers real quick," says Kathy. Ellen Robey, 28, who works for a talk show in Nashville, Tennessee, and runs a Rules support group, says her attitude now is "I deserve the best, and you're lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAYING HARD TO GET | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...first half of the film is powered by the erotic virtual twinship of its protagonists, Philipe and Tom. The opening scenes show them always together-- imitating each other and people passing by, kissing the same woman simultaneously. Ronet and Delon even look uncannily alike with their blue-green eyes, tan bodies, open shirts and light colored pants. In perhaps the most disturbing scene of the film, Tom, alone in Philipe's bedroom, puts on Philipe's clothes and starts speaking as Philipe, pretending to address Marg and kissing his own image in the mirror. Philipe discovers him and orders, "Take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Quasi-Americans Abroad | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

...music: he plays lead guitar for the all-writer band the Rock Bottom Remainders. The group covers a litany of rock favorites, dubbed "hard-listening music" by band member (and humor columnist) Dave Barry. To the tune of These Boots Are Made for Walking, fellow Remainder (and novelist) Amy Tan dons a tight leather jumpsuit and whips other band members. Says Barry: "We try to be moderately entertaining, so people don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITERARY YEARNINGS: ROCK STARS AND THE AUTHORS WHO LOVE THEM | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...office is surprisingly calm. He is cheerfully rumpled, slipping out of his still tied shoes (revealing a small hole in a green sock), shunning coat and tie like a squirmy 12-year-old. Bright blue eyes and a wide trust-me smile are set off by a private-island tan. Longish, turbulent, sandy hair, streaked with gray, and his trademark vandyke beard are the stamp of his swashbuckling style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANY TIMES A VIRGIN | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

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