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...narrative traits that seem to demand an ironic double take. She has the habit, for example, of quoting everyone else's fulsome praise of her: "Oh, Margaret, what a great, great story... You say such wise things, Margaret...You're an extraordinary young woman, Margaret." Isn't Margaret a wee bit full of herself? And what to make of this rector's loving inventories of the riches of her church, "the Elsa Van Wyck Memorial Ciborium with Van's grandmother's diamonds and garnets encrusted in the base, and the Georgian silver thurible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millennium Fevers | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...writing this down? FM: With a pen. S: What kind of pen? FM: A light green pen. S: Have any Irish in you? FM: Half. S: What color hair do you have? FM: Uh, brown. S: How tall are you? FM: About five-six. S: A wee bit shorter than me. I'm five-seven. Sign? FM: What? S: Your sign, what you were born under. FM: Virgo. S: How old you be this year? FM: 19. S: Have you got a boyfriend? FM: Yes. (fib) S: How tall is he? FM: About six-one. S: That...

Author: By L. A. Yast, | Title: PADDY CHAT | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...wasn't over yet. The Crimson couldn't fly out of Charleston Sunday afternoon and spent 12 hours in airports before arriving in Cambridge in the wee hours yesterday morning...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Opens Season with Pair of Doubleheader Splits | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...week before the show, she says, rehearsal hours increased and performers practiced into the wee hours of the morning, some nights not leaving Radcliffe Yard until...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ten Years of Celebrating South Asia | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...down the sperm. Then there is homosexuality, a reproductively senseless but nevertheless deeply compelling sexual strategy for millions of both sexes. Not to mention masturbation, celebrated by rapper Foxy Brown's chart-topping song Ill Na Na, in which she promises to "hold my own like Pee Wee in a movie theater...I can do bad by my damn self." Men are not the species' only sex machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Truth About The Female Body | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

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