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Hoping to woo back former fans and keep the ones they have, the soaps are also aggressively promoting themselves with such memorabilia as trading cards, coffee mugs, T shirts and books, as well as prime-time specials. Some are cleverly marketing videos that feature best-loved scenes and character histories. Available in video stores and supermarkets and through mail order, the tapes recycle old footage and thus cost little to produce. "It's a great example of using what you have and making money twice on it," says Michael Kape, managing editor of the weekly newsletter Soap Opera...
...caught up with the more aloof Balladur and passed him, but in a shocking result, Jospin won the first round of the election. Chirac has never been known for his consistency, and having tacked left to defeat Balladur, he nudged more to the right for the final round to woo the Le Pen voters. He began hammering on issues like law- and-order and the fight against the legacy of socialism. Now Chirac must achieve something in the office he has sought so eagerly for so long. Most important, he must address unemployment. It is a stubborn problem: France...
...Flan, communicating both his ironic intelligence ("There was an article about it in the paper of note--theTimes," he deadpans) and his essential goodness. And Fortunato has the tempo of Ouisa's anxious monologues down pat--"Two million dollars!" she repeats, like an incantation, as she and Flan woo a potential investor...
...women who, in person, were much the same as they were online. That is often not the case. The disembodied voices that whisper through cyberspace can often be manufactured identities that can disguise, distort or amplify aspects of a user's personality. Fortunately, only a relative few -- Lotharios who woo indiscriminately, for example, or pederasts who prey on vulnerable children -- have a devious and potentially dangerous intent. Most Net users are more likely to project aspects of the person they wish they could be. Paulina Borsook, author of Love over the Wires, calls this ``selective lying by omission''; psychologist Kenneth...
...despite their urbanity, these actors and actresses have an appealingly childlike quality. Pitt is the sort of free spirit who might woo a girl by popping wheelies in a parking lot. Hawke would be more likely to take her to his dorm room and show off his John Coltrane collection. Rather than overt sex appeal, actresses like Marisa Tomei and the Parkers project the flustered insouciance of college coeds. They are the smart, pretty girls on campus who keep losing their library cards. Declares Thurman: "I am completely a goofball nerd...