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...heat up interest, the label arranged tiny, invitation-only concerts for the record-industry elite and young celebrities like Johnny Depp. MTV has not been overlooked -- Cash has made a video of Delia's Gone in which he stars with model Kate Moss, the barely 20- year-old waif goddess. Cash is even considering playing on the Lollapalooza alternative-music tour. Despite all the hype, Cash has remained remarkably serene and even seems a little oblivious to where the record company is sending him. In New York City he performed at an ultrahip club called Fez; Cash refers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Dream Album | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...decided --if truth be told, I decided this long ago--that Winona Ryder lacks the acting range of Ingrid Bergman or Katherine Hepburn, and it upset me that a movie which purported to confront "reality" in some shape or form (even ironically,especially ironically would make a wide-eyed waif its heroine with seemingly no other justification. Then I castigated myself for maybe being jealous of her and the fact that my movie-going companion seemed to think that two hours of watching her was a perfectly fine way of spending a afternoon even if he thought the rest...

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

...that never stop rubbing the back of your heel, it is always there, doing what nature did not intend, with wires sufficient to hold up a suspension bridge and pads that would protect Jim Kelly. And for what? To be more appealing? A few minutes ago, the Kate Moss waif effect was all the rage, together with its requisite minimizer bra -- a contraption that could raise your voice an octave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: Less Than Uplifting | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...Anything reminiscent of the waif look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take the G-Train | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

Enthralled in a competitive struggle for the waif-like ideal, any woman who weighs less is viewed with hateful envy...

Author: By Raine N. Reyes, | Title: The Beauty Myth | 11/20/1993 | See Source »

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