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The explosion of office seekers in California may have been due, in part, to the state's low threshold for boredom. "A woman candidate is automatically more interesting," says William Schneider, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, "a flash of fuchsia in a sea of gray." Pollster Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Our Turn | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

Female fashion is exhausting. All that variety from which to choose the few items that will transform you into a knockout. All those racks in all those stores: it takes hours and days to find the perfect thing. Once home, the garments crowd the closet, challenging you to put together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Ode to a Tyrannical Muse (or Why I Love and Hate Fashion) | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

A onetime waiter who is appealing a conviction for fraudulent bankruptcy in his native Italy, Parretti raised cash for the deal by tapping European companies he controls and selling rights to movies controlled by Pathe and MGM/UA. Time Warner agreed to pay $125 million for home-video rights to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Is It a Wrap At Last? | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

Issues of race. By largely ignoring the concerns of Blacks and other minorities and appealing to a white middle class, the New Mainstreamers hope to distance themselves from the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. The failure of the Civil Rights Act of 1990 is the first casualty of this "forward looking...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: With Democrats Like These, Who Needs Republicans? | 11/3/1990 | See Source »

Men and women often find do-it-yourself videos more appealing than standard triple-X fare. For one thing, couples tend to emphasize story line as well as visuals. More important, notes psychologist Lonnie Barbach of San Francisco, "it's not just plumbing shots of anonymous people." One Minneapolis couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sex Lives and Videotape | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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