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...that? I don't know that you do handle it. Suicide is such a strange thing. It's still shrouded in mystery and, for some people, shame because of their religious beliefs or whatever reason. It's like someone steps out of the shadows and stabs you with a stiletto. Then you have to figure out how to move on from there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Anderson Cooper | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

...never obscures the furtive, assertive heart beating under the kimono. I loved seeing most of my favorite Chinese actresses in one movie (even if they were turning Japanese), and watching Gong Li stride away with her first big English-language picture. As the vindictive Hatsumomo, the Gongster flashes a stiletto stare that can burn in passion or turn on a rival with Freon fury. Those are pleasures enough for this unapologetic reviewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Richard Corliss' Top Films of the Year | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

...film. Zhang, 26, blossoms persuasively from a girl of 15 to a woman in her early 30s, and Watanabe lends his warmth and regal machismo to the Chairman. But it's Gong Li, in a Bette Davis bitch-goddess role, who strides away with the picture. Her stiletto stare can burn in passion or turn on a rival with Freon fury. Facing it, one child extra started sobbing and had to be replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of a Geisha | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

CONDOLEEZZA RICE brought the traveling press corps to attention on a visit last winter to U.S. troops in Germany, making a fashion power statement in sexy stiletto boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All About the Shoes | 7/26/2005 | See Source »

Around the globe, diplomats are busy comparing notes on what they see--and they aren't talking about her stiletto boots. To some, Condi's rise augurs a return to a more pragmatic U.S. diplomacy for an Administration exhausted by war, occupation and ideological infighting. That perception was given a boost last week by Bush's announcement that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the chief architect of the war in Iraq, would leave the Pentagon to take over as head of the World Bank--another sign that Rice and her realist deputies have gained the upper hand over their neoconservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Condi on the Rise | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

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