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...freeway." Compactly muscular at 6 ft. 2 in. and 175 lbs., Lewis now competes for the Santa Monica Track Club, since he was declared scholastically ineligible at Houston last year. But he is finishing his degree in broadcasting and, on the side, restoring a suburban Victorian house. Last summer, while competing in Europe, instead of making forays to discos with teammates, Lewis read Good Housekeeping and shopped for crystal...
With summer just around the corner, the pale of face throughout the Northern Hemisphere will soon be hitting beaches in pursuit of a deep, dark and sexy tan. The Victorian ideal of delicate, camellia-white skin has long since been supplanted by the bronzed-god look. But the trend has taken a mortal toll. Sun-related skin cancer is rapidly on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, and afflicting younger and younger people. The incidence of the most lethal form, malignant melanoma, though less directly linked to sunshine, has jumped tenfold in the past 20 years. Last week some...
...about Star Wars. He is a compulsive worrier, a nonstop perfectionist. Maybe that is why his movies are so good." Clarke spent a day, along with Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell, interviewing Lucas and his wife Marcia, an Oscar-winning film editor who helped cut Jedi, at their white Victorian mansion in nearby San Anselmo. Worrell also toured Skywalker Ranch, the 3,000-acre film-making community that Lucas is constructing in Marin County's rolling hills. Says she: "George told me that when he was a teenager, he used to grease his hair back with Vaseline and attach...
...will be all. He will spend time with his wife, play with his daughter, and go to movies. He will also read and write, retreating to what Marcia calls his "treehouse environment," a little suite in a former carriage house a few steps away from the rest of their Victorian-style home in San Anselmo. There, near his Mickey Mouse phone, his Wookie pencil holder and his telescope, he has books on mythology, like Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and five three-ring notebooks, in which he has written notes on the history of Star...
...perhaps too definitive for all but the most dedicated Pepysians? The editors have thought of that too. The solution is a splendid one-volume abridgment with lots of color pictures: The Illustrated Pepys. As the Victorian editors represented their times, the modern editors reflect theirs: the political history is much condensed, the bawdy parts all included...