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...danceable single, a low neckline and a naughty video or public scandal. Americans want those things too, but they demand that their pop stars also make a show of evolving into something more. We require at least the appearance of artistic appetite to leaven the guilt of a cheap thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skin Deep and Proud of It | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...that I mind the temporary notoriety. In all honesty, I’ve always been a mild exhibitionist. There’s a thrill to knowing that girls envy your legs and that a few straight men fancy you over their current girlfriends (you know who you are). But as anyone who has endured plastic surgery—i.e., Michael, Janet or LaToya—knows, beauty is pain. As I prepared for the pageant, I had to ask myself, “What will it take to be Miss Harvard?” More importantly (as my preparations proceeded...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The True Confessions of Miss Harvard | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...river, where restaurants zealously compete for customers, I choose Red City Seafood Restaurant (look for the ship's hull protruding from the second floor). Lording over the outdoor live tanks like an executioner, I pick the creatures doomed to become my meal. Vegetarians don't get this kind of thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South China's Happening Heart | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...junior who whines when her country-club sport doesn’t make the front page never really did much for me. And even the most exciting moments—like Tyler Kolarik’s wrister on Saturday that ended an epic ECAC Championship game—thrill me but never make me wish I were in the thick of the action...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved By the Bell: I'm Gettin' Old | 3/21/2002 | See Source »

...guilty thrill to watch Mackey trample sleazebags and their liberties like a skinhead rhino--you feel complicit when he crosses the line, but he does get results. Mackey's rival, an ambitious precinct captain (Benito Martinez), is principled but ineffectual. Between them is Detective Claudette Wyms (C.C.H. Pounder), a middle-aged black woman in a white boys' clubhouse who keeps her own counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: L.A.P.D. Blues | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

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