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...date with that week's Lonely Heart and watch the date from a secret room, all the better to tell the lady where she goes wrong. The idea is to bring a woman's gay best friend to the small screen. "Because we tell them when their bum looks big in those jeans or if they're dating a loser. And they listen and trust us because we have no ulterior motives," says Richard Hastings, the show's creator. "Gay men can just tell a woman the truth, like, 'You're being a real bitch.' If a straight man said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely Pink | 11/2/2003 | See Source »

...based on months of interviews with Namu. And Mathieu's presence helps keep some of Namu's outrageousness in check. Mathieu says, for example, that Namu first described her father as riding into her village on a white stallion and wooing her mother with the line "Hey baby, nice bum." It was a good story?but total fiction. And Namu has shocked audiences at book readings in the U.S. by stating that she would never take a Mosuo man because she can't stand "their stink." Such comments are familiar to many Chinese and to me?I've known Namu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaving the Motherland | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

JOHNNY CASH His was not the rocker's shriek but the dark, deep voice of a man counting out his demons and his losses with the stoicism of a poker player dealt a bum hand. A look at his legacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Sep. 22, 2003 | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...dark and deep. Rarely, before or since, has a voice also shown the grit to express, endure and outlive that misery. His songs played like confessions on a deathbed or death row, but he delivered them with the plangent stoicism of a world-class poker player dealt a bum hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man In Black: JOHNNY CASH (1932-2003) | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...Anybody can be a lazy bum and get up at noon to poster,” he said...

Author: By Ebonie D. Hazle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Postering To Move to Afternoon Time | 9/19/2003 | See Source »

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