Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playful flirtation was the language that reigned between men and women. Her pricing, unlike her peers', is relatively quaint too, with a ceiling of $300. Like Tuleh's Patner, Yates is a former stylist. In the early '90s she began to make clothes in her spare time. When she took them to photo shoots, the models couldn't keep their hands off them. In the past year her garments have made their way into Barney's New York and Henri Bendel, where they've graced the windows of the Fifth Avenue flagship store and sold...
Rowling, a single mother who wrote part of the first Harry book while on the dole, feels she has slid right down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. The daughter of middle-class parents near Bristol, she began writing secretly when she was six, and after university took a series of jobs, mainly as a teacher. But she never considered writing for children until one day in 1990, when "Harry just strolled into my head fully formed." That same year, however, her life fell apart. Her mother died of multiple sclerosis at 45, and Rowling was both burglarized and fired from...
...packed with a collapsed 48-lb. lime-green electric scooter. I groaned, thinking that hours of assembly were required. They weren't. The scooter, which is powered by a 24-volt battery and belt-drive motor, is an ingenious collection of folded-up parts and snap-on components that took me about 15 minutes to put together...
...TOOK "SERIOUS" TV ROLES: Making an early mark in Before Women Had Wings, an Oprah-produced telefilm about child abuse, she recently appeared as the hippie flower child in NBC's highly rated mini-series...
...BONDED WITH MADONNA: Asked to appear in a Material Girl-produced film about a young pyromaniac, Stiles took an informal meeting with her longtime feminist influence. "She's very assertive, and nobody's bossing her around," the younger actress says, mimicking Madonna's screwy new British accent. "I've always kind of tried to emulate that...