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Grownup men don't harass women, and mature women don't get harassed [CLINTON'S CRISES, March 23]. The real-life issue driving harassment is the abuse of power by men and women. Power is the temptress behind much of what is morally wrong in this world, whether it is abusing our children, harassing others or bullying a foreign country. HANNS J. KRISTEN San Anselmo, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 13, 1998 | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...America struggles to understand the Lewinsky affair, there's a natural temptation to make sense of the drama by reducing it to a clash between individual heroes and villains. And so we have a parade of soap-opera caricatures--the overzealous and partisan prosecutor, the lusty young temptress, the bloodless wife, the philandering husband--all competing for blame in the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laws that Run Amuck | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...they made together, Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight, were such box-office poison, the couple say they intend to keep working together. Perhaps they'll even take a leaf out of JERRY HALL and MICK JAGGER's book of marital adventures. Barely seven months after the Texan temptress called on Princess Diana's divorce lawyer for a wee spot of legal advice, she's three months pregnant with the couple's fourth child. Jagger, 53, already has two grandchildren for his newest offspring to frolic with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 23, 1997 | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...notion that a film's look and tone can be its subject is, well, foreign to Hollywood directors, for whom the basic elements are a propulsive story and some slambang special effects. But as Chen Kaige shows in the humid, tumid Temptress Moon, image is all. Reuniting the stars (Hong Kong's Leslie Cheung and the mainland's Gong Li) of his 1993 Farewell My Concubine, Chen paints a glamorous portrait of drugs and decadence in 1920s China. The leaders of today's China, addicted to the old narcotic of Maoism, may have seen the film as an unflattering mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A REAL SUMMER BREAK | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...famously sunshiny wife, then his assignation with another woman in a New York City hotel room might not have been that big a deal. But because his wife is talk-show host Kathie Lee Gifford, some juicy supermarket produce called the Globe made a reported $75,000 deal with temptress Suzen Johnson to get the goods on Kathie Lee's sportscaster husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORTSCASTERS BEHAVING BADLY? | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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