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...limits when it comes to capitalizing on fears of inadequacy. So for the poor souls who aren't endowed like Sophia Loren (i.e., most women who aren't lingerie models) but still have to put on a swimsuit once in a while, Cole of California offers an inflatable bikini featuring a plastic pump that air-tanks the top. Cost? An eye-catching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Lift | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...taste of its own medicine and happily engaged in a feeding frenzy off the debris which floated to the top of the Times's massive pile of dirty laundry. One memo from a boss asked for a potential female employee's "vital statistics . . . and her picture in a bikini." The plaintiffs had also accumulated several testimonies from women who remembered male editors saying everything from "no woman will ever be an editor of The New York Times," to Times women's "nipples pucker for power". One male editor of the Times called it the "single worst moment" in the history...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Hear the Ladies Of the Gray Lady | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...breast-implant)) story." Public health? Slicing women's chests open so that they can be stuffed with a close chemical relative of Silly Putty? Yes, indeed, because the plastic surgeons understand what the FDA is so reluctant to acknowledge: small breasts are not just a harmless challenge to the bikini wearer or would-be topless entertainer. They are a disease, a disfiguring illness for which the technical term is micromastia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stamping Out A Dread Scourge | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...just doesn't get any better than this," boasts Old Milwaukee beer's TV campaign, which features a gyrating "Swedish Bikini Team" descending upon male campers. But Stroh Brewery, the beer's maker, is discovering that things $ just might get worse. Five women employees have sued the company, charging that the ads foster a work environment that encourages sexual harassment. "These ads tell Stroh's male employees that women are stupid, panting playthings," says attorney Lori Peterson. Her clients have been confronted with pornography, taunted with lewd remarks and slapped on the rear, she contends. The company describes the allegation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Battling the Bimbo Factor | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

LITE 'N UP. Just in time for the bikini season comes a "diet survival" board game that pits players against the spinning "wheel of willpower." Beware! You may wallow indefinitely in Restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games People Play | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

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