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...talk about your male-dominated, boorish, belching and beer-bellied sports media all you want, but nobody had to twist Foudy's very strong arm to get her to pose for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's swimsuit issue. And then there was defender Brandi Chastain, severely out of uniform in Gear magazine. That picture won her a trip to the Late Show, where David Letterman subtly, delicately expressed what was on America's mind. The U.S. team, said the ever sensitive host, was "Babe City," a metropolis populated by "Soccer Mamas...
...greatest-hits album, the big sister of folk-rock country accentuates the up-tempo side of her decade-long legacy. Don't look for the cogent introspection of Only a Dream; here she has chosen songs brassy enough to be sung at the Super Bowl (Down at the Twist and Shout) or on Letterman (Can't Take Love for Granted). They sound great, as do two new anthems about the singer's favorite people: women who run risks, pay for them, keep on running. And at the head of the pack, still not breathing hard, there's Chapin...
Thayer Hall, south of Canaday, is a nice, fairly nondescript dorm. About 20 people share each of Thayer's hallway bathrooms. Thayer adds a new twist to Harvard's entryway system: its hallways are actually social...
...Tzudiker and Noni White and the myriad artists at their command have taken the familiar Tarzan iconography--vine swinging, Jane, Cheetah, the jungle yodel--then freshened or deepened it. This ape-man (animated by Glen Keane and voiced by Tony Goldwyn) is no longer a swinger; he rides the twisting highways of tree boughs like the coolest surfer. (Alert, all Disney park ride designers: have the Tarzan Twist ready by next spring...
...their rooms, were not social snobs. Like Princess Grace of Monaco, Diana was a celebrity royal. She was a movie star who never actually appeared in a movie; in a sense her whole life was a movie, a serial melodrama acted out in public, with every twist and turn of the plot reported to a world audience. Diana was astute enough to understand the power of television and the voracious British tabloid newspapers. And she consistently tried to use the mass media as a stage for projecting her image--as the wronged spouse, as the radiant society beauty...