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There is throughout the account the sweet-and-sour scent of a high school romance. Lewinsky talked of presents they exchanged: he gave her a dress and a volume of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass; she gave him ties and a statue of a frog (an old Clinton obsession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Truth or...Consequences | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

The effect is stunning: a seven-year-old in lipstick and a borrowed pink dress. Anyway, the sight stuns the parents of the boy who makes his entrance so gaily bedecked. He is Ludovic (Georges du Fresne), a sweet child convinced he's a girl. No point in lecturing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Short Takes: Ma Vie En Rose | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Set in contemporary Hoboken, New Jersey, the play opens as Julie (Edith H. Bishop '00) confesses her longtime obsession with computers and technology to friend and neighbor Claire (Claire E. Farley '01). With little experience in high school and even less self-confidence, Julie explains that she fears her own...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Old Working Girl, We Hardly Knew Thee | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

These traits have allowed Grove to push with paranoiac obsession the bounds of innovation and to build Intel, which makes nearly 90% of the planet's PC microprocessors, into a company worth $115 billion (more than IBM), with $5.1 billion in annual profits (seventh most profitable in the world) and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: MAN OF THE YEAR | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

While autopsy results were withheld pending results of drug tests, it is clear that Farley's life was ravaged by his obsession with excess. His comic persona, honed to a sweaty, self-mocking perfection on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995 and in such hit films as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHRIS FARLEY: THE SUFFERING OF A FOOL | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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