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...Elmo's Fire" had exciting twists in its love plots, while the love plot of "Reality Bites is absolutely stock. From the moment you see Ben Stiller's Ken Olin hair and eager, money-making kind of mannerisms, you know that Winona will wind up with theother: the unshaven, moody "slacker" who can't keep a job even at a newsstand, can't graduate and sings the Violent Femmes' "Why Can't I Get Just One Fuck" when he's pissed...

Author: By Alexandra Jacobs, | Title: Taking a Bite Out of Hollywood | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...most of history, men simply assumed their own importance, indeed their primacy. With masculinity under sustained assault, men have been slow to respond, to state their case, to articulate the rationale for something they regarded as self-evidently good -- their manhood. This is the way that monarchs, bewildered and unshaven, are led out into the palace courtyard and shot, thinking to themselves, "Oh, dear!" and "Maybe the people have a point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...suspect, a 5'7", 170 pound white male in his 20s, then took a large amount of cash from the store's safe, which he forced the supervisor to open. He then fled the store. The suspect was unshaven, very dirty, and was wearing a grey stocking cap and a grey winter jacket at the time of the robbery...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Pharmacy Robbed Of Cash | 11/23/1993 | See Source »

That was a little how it felt as Barcelona, the often unshaven but designer- crazy capital of Catalonia, set flame to the Games of the 25th Olympiad. The occasion was a golden opportunity for presenting the city as a shiny new capital of a postnational world. It was also a quadrilingual glimpse into a multicultural future. Music at the celebrations that opened the Games came from an atlas of names -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, Angelo Badalamenti (of Twin Peaks fame), Andrew Lloyd Webber; Placido Domingo was followed by a sea of "living sculptures" designed by a man from the West Indies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benvinguts to the Catalan Games! | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...transcended his predictions. By the time he accelerated through the final five gates of his second run in the giant slalom to ease past archrival Marc Girardelli and became the first Olympian skier to defend a championship, Tomba had left his signature in capital letters on the Games. Afterward, unshaven, in a baseball cap, with balloons around his neck, making comments about his prowess that his interpreter decided not to translate, "La Bomba" all but ensured a transition from the small screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1992 Winter Olympics: Even In Alberto-Ville, Everyman Lives | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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