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...figure salary and no cellulite? (So why wasn't Jessica found with a kitchen knife in her chest?) Was it Rosie's Waspy neighbor who makes brioche from scratch, using the seven-hour classic recipe (no freezing the dough)? Or Richie's sister Carol, "Our Lady of the Bikini Wax"? Rosie, the last-to-know wife, vows to get the answers first. A woman whose last task as a civilian was to grade papers on "The Gamut of Love in Pride and Prejudice" becomes an adventurer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prize On the Lam | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

Comic: You should talk. If your hairline recedes any more, you'll have to start buying floor wax instead of Brylcreem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's A Short, Bald-Headed, Potbellied Guy to Do? | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

HANDCUFFS, YES. HOT CANDLE WAX DRIPping on Willem Dafoe's naked torso -- that too. But the nipple clamps remain an unfulfilled promise. And so does BODY OF EVIDENCE, in which Madonna plays a woman on trial for murdering a lover by inducing a heart-straining sexual frenzy. It sounds like a promising part for the best-selling author of Sex. But movies get rated, and trying to stay on the sunny side of an R, this one turns into a static courtroom drama -- and not very well made or played either. Madonna's function is to irritate the decorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Feb. 1, 1993 | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...last week when they "went kind of berserk" (according to one protest organizer) and threw a tantrum over the removal of paper items in their dining hall. Like latter day courtiers in 17th century France, the Eliotees banged demi-tasses of dining services-grade coffee and demanded their paraffin wax...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rebellion, Eliot Style | 10/27/1992 | See Source »

...type of rich man -- Great Lakes ! mercantile magnates. Darwin Martin, a mail-order-soap chief executive from Buffalo, commissioned houses and offices and lent him tens of thousands of dollars. Fallingwater was the country house of Pittsburgh department-store owner Edgar Kaufmann, and for "Hib" Johnson of Johnson's Wax he designed an enormous house as well as a corporate headquarters. Richard Lloyd Jones, the architect's newspaper-publisher cousin, called him a "strutting, self- seeking, self-centered charmer" -- but he loved the house Wright built him, even though it (typically) went 50% over budget and (typically) leaked. "Well," Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master Of All He Surveyed | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

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