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...without limiting his style. Dr. Ordinary is anything but: "He found God with no difficulty, but locating his belief another matter." Miss Resignation "liked football and was absolutely certain that she could have been an excellent off-tackle, slant-type runner . . . 44 was her number. Forty-four was her bra size, too. This had held her back in life, she felt." Occasionally the other characters in these fragments become a little too wacko, as if they were acting out for the onlookers. But Powell has a unique and vigorous imagination, and his eccentricity, studied or spontaneous, is to be treasured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Reading | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

Allen built the wall in 1954, establishing Tonight as a bedtime slot for zany comedy and snappy conversation. For five years beginning in 1957, Paar turned it into a wailing wall; he made Tonight into Event TV by tangling with politicians and crackpots, discussing his young daughter's training bra, walking off the show one night after the censors clipped a joke. And Carson, unquestionably the longest lived power player in TV, bought the wall. Or rather, as his popularity and contract demands escalated, NBC bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passing The Late-Night Crown | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...could say I am turning men into swine, but I also have this other side of my head that is saying that I am forcing men -- not forcing, asking men -- to behave in ways that they are not supposed to have in society. If they want to wear a bra, they can wear a bra. If they want to cry, they can cry. If they want to kiss another man, they can kiss another man. I give them license to do that. My rebellion is not just against my father but against the priests and all the men who made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madonna In Bloom: MADONNA | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...There are people who dress just in a decorated bra and underwear," she says. "The motto is, the more exposure, the more exposure...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Harvard Dancers 'Funk' on Club | 2/16/1991 | See Source »

...filming, from producer Henry Weinstein to the former child actors who played Monroe's children. Wonderful nuggets of Marilyniana emerge. Her insecurities led Monroe to demand that a blond extra be tossed off the set and later to complain that co-star Cyd Charisse was padding her bra. When the Shah of Iran visited the Fox lot, Monroe refused to meet him until she found out Iran's position on Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Twinkle Hasn't Faded | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

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