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- <title>
- Jun. 20, 1994: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jun. 20, 1994 The War on Welfare Mothers
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 73
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Genia Bellafante
- </p>
- <p> Librarians Threaten Model
- </p>
- <p> Beware the wrath of disgruntled library workers. Three
- employees of a New Jersey library were indicted in a plot to
- exact revenge on co-workers. The trio sent threatening letters
- to supermodel STEPHANIE SEYMOUR in the name of the colleagues
- against whom they held an unspecified grudge. The correspondence
- included pictures of Seymour, ominous remarks, and cutouts of
- guns and knives pointed at her head. The FBI said Seymour "did
- not appear to be in danger."
- </p>
- <p> NATO Allies Voice Concern
- </p>
- <p> By the time HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON showed up in Paris
- wearing a palazzo pantsuit and holding a faux kitten clutch,
- Europe had already reacted negatively to her fashion aesthetic.
- Traveling with her husband, Mrs. Clinton received her harshest
- reviews in Italy, where the press called her look "uncertain"
- and criticized a straw hat with polka dots. A Milan newspaper
- commented that it looked as if it "could have come from The Bold
- and the Beautiful." Said one Italian designer: "Fashion stayed
- at home."
- </p>
- <p> Great Expectations
- </p>
- <p> A stylishly literate British pop group, the AUTEURS are
- proud of their pretentiousness (as their name might suggest).
- They have reason to be. With their first major CD, Now I'm a
- Cowboy, released in the U.S, the quartet, led by lyricist LUKE
- HAINES, has been praised for its trenchant, unwhiny
- music-as-social-critique. In an essay on the band, Billboard
- said one Auteurs song was as descriptive of "the letdowns of
- empty attainment as any social parable by Dickens." Until Kurt
- Cobain's drug overdose in Rome last March,, the band was
- scheduled to tour with Nirvana. How do the Auteurs account for
- their haute success? "Most British bands are writing retro,"
- says Haines. "They're trying to recapture the spirit of punk.
- I wanted to write about the times we're in now."
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> For TOM ARNOLD, life without his more celebrated companion
- seems to be a desperate business indeed. Arnold recently paid
- an unexpected visit to his estranged wife ROSEANNE at the rented
- villa to which she had repaired on an Italian island. Shortly
- after his arrival, Tom asked Roseanne to step outside; in the
- bushes lurked a photographer from the National Enquirer, fueling
- suspicion that Tom had set his wife up. In the past he has
- admitted to selling information about her to the tabloid.
- </p>
- <p> Before her trip to the U.S., Japan's EMPRESS MICHIKO
- engaged in a very American custom: public revelation. In a move
- that stunned the Japanese media, the Empress talked about a
- strange illness that last fall left her unable to speak. Some
- believed that negative press triggered her condition. But at a
- news conference the Empress said, "I now blame myself" for a
- "fragile" heart.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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