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...give you pause, but consider this: you've got seven years to find a date and make yourself presentable. "There is still plenty of time to coordinate your hair with your makeup," soothes fashion designer Dianne Brill. A night owl, Brill is planning the outfit she will wear to usher in the ) year 2000. Her rule of thumb: "Overdress, but be comfy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's 1999 | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...here, in this convention-mad city, even the locals couldn't resist missing the grand old party in the Astrodome, even if the only way in was to volunteer as an usher...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Locals Get in on Convention | 8/21/1992 | See Source »

...judges were concerned that ending Theresa Ann's life would set a harmful precedent: people who were not completely braindead could be exterminated based on their projected "quality of life." Unwilling to usher in a new Nazi era, they adopted the "Who are we to decide?" approach to Theresa Ann's life...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Baby Talk | 4/3/1992 | See Source »

...Tonight show is a talk show that happens to have comedy." Leno is adept with the comedy; the guests are a problem. While Leno is peerless as a monologist, his interviewing is still amateurish. He sometimes seems like a guest on his own show, polite and admiring -- an usher at the wedding, not the groom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jay Leno: Midnight's Mayor | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

Most readers will immediately recognize Mickey Pearlman and Katherine Usher Henderson's new title. A Voice of One's Own, as a conscious allusion to Virginia Woolf's original masterpiece. They will quite naturally assume the book to be a sympathetic look at women in literature. And to a certain extent, their assumption will be justified. But while Woolf's work was a subtle, erudite study of the conditions which allow women to write. A Voice of One's Own: Conversations With America's Writing Women is an giddy, superficial look at the lifestyles and publications of women writers...

Author: By Kelly A. E. mason, | Title: Luminaries of Modern American Literature Give Women a Cultural Voice | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

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