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...revelation. James has never considered food in any terms more complicated than hungry, full, yum, yuck. I--and, I would venture to say, most of my female friends--have had as confused and complex a relationship with food as with many a human being...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: Dieting Dilemmas--Just a Waste of Time | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...CRACKLE, YUCK! Here's something to chew on this summer: every time your bug zapper vaporizes a fly, it sends off a cone of bacteria-and-virus-laden mist that can be up to 6 ft. wide. Most of the microbes are probably harmless--unless the insect has been feeding on manure. Best advice: mount your zapper far from your food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Jun. 14, 1999 | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...fancy club they belong to. Your brand-new sleek-looking black dress is coming off great and things are going smoothly until just after the appetizer, when you accidentally, and quite loudly, release some gas you've been trying to hold in for the past half hour. Yuck! Here's what to do to get out of this jam while saving face...

Author: By Dan L. Gruenberg, | Title: under pressure | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...fellow who appointed Madeleine Albright and Ruth Bader Ginsburg--just because he might have a little problem keeping his fly zipped up. However, Bob Packwood was also pro-choice and, on some lofty level, no doubt pro-woman. And the point still came when you had to say yuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week Feminists Got Laryngitis | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...Yuck!" is left unsaid. And while it is easy to imagine this actress playing television's most famous ex-virgin, Donna Martin of Beverly Hills, 90210, it is less easy to imagine her starring in an independent movie like The House of Yes, a new black comedy from Miramax in which Spelling's character, Lesly, discovers that her fiance has been re-enacting the assassination of John F. Kennedy with his twin sister by way of foreplay. For Spelling, at last, the kitsch is overt, and thus The House of Yes represents what is known in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOT JUST DADDY'S GIRL | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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