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...animated trifle about characters made from those useless bits of fuzz and stuffing that come loose from your clothes in the dryer. If cleaning the lint filter is the highlight of your lazy Saturday, then the film’s final shot will make you break down and weep tender, knowing tears. Otherwise, don’t rush...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In the B.U.F.F. | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

...facilitate diagnosis, the American College of Rheumatology established a procedure for examining 18 tender points on a patient's body. If the muscles feel very sore when pressed in 11 of these 18 points, a tentative diagnosis of fibromyalgia can be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurting All Over | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...basins of bleach or saltwater or stuff astringent herbs, tobacco or fertilizer inside their vagina. The tissue of the lining swells up and natural lubricants dry out. The resulting dry sex is painful and dangerous for women. The drying agents suppress natural bacteria, and friction easily lacerates the tender walls of the vagina. Dry sex increases the risk of HIV infection for women, already two times as likely as men to contract the virus from a single encounter. The women, adds Chikoka, can charge more for dry sex, 50 or 60 rands ($6.46 to $7.75), enough to pay a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Stalks A Continent | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...first encountered Thalía (pronounced Tah-LEE-ah) on "La Movida," a late-evening talk/variety program. About 20 at the time (1992), Thalía was already a showbiz veteran (she started in her first prefab band at the tender age of nine). Her look was what struck home first - a lithe, energetic brunette with a white streak running through the front of her manelike hair, clad in a series of outlandish, eye-catching outfits. Her songs were the next aspect to register - an assortment of well-crafted pop tunes with clearly salacious overtones. The coup de grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mrs. Mottola Nobody Knows | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...write his or her own particular fantasy. Her response to the question of whether she, privately, is more like her "Marias" or the flashily dressed, seductive chanteuse, is a carefully measured one: "The public can choose how they want to see me. Some like the image of a tender girl, the poor girl of the soap operas. Others see me [as] more aggressive, strong, the way, I am sometimes on stage... I let my fans decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mrs. Mottola Nobody Knows | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

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