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...purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Titter, Whisper and Wink, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day, maybe any day. (She was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.) As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged. But primly. This was the '50s. And primitively. No retakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garbo of Bondage | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

This is the stuff bad movies are made of. Friedman had to appeal to the HMO's board of directors. "I said, 'I'll pay for my own mammogram. Just let me get it done.'" She won her appeal and finally had the test. "They didn't even have to do a biopsy," she says. "The radiologist just looked at it and said, 'Oh, my God. You've got breast cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...monochromatic paintings of the early minimalists. For Smuts, each tessera is important in its individuality, and its contrast to the whole.The time and care taken by the artists of each tile is evident. Yet, “I don’t entirely understand the appeal of the project,” admits Smuts. “Why would someone spend hours and hours on this work, and then send it to me?” Smuts’s artists must sign away all rights to their work; there is no financial compensation, and little recognition.Smuts recounts an anecdote...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Getting Lost in the Digital Wallpaper | 4/22/2006 | See Source »

...you’re not welcome.” The best option, morally and politically, is for Democrats to build alliances with immigrants. The modern Democratic Party has stood for the dispossessed, and marginalized groups have responded by supporting Democratic causes. Democrats, if they hope to appeal to the more diverse U.S. currently being built, must continue to be a party of tolerance, not a party of protectionism and xenophobia.But to unite U.S. workers and immigrants, Democrats need to change their pitch. First, they need to stop claiming that immigrants only take the jobs that Americans don?...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon, | Title: An Injury To One | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...Foreign Affairs article, he described “soft power” as the “ability to attract others by the legitimacy of U.S. policies and the values that underlie them.” China, the panel observed, is increasingly using diplomacy, culture, and popular appeal to conduct its foreign policy...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Praises China’s Diplomacy | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

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