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...Wynn interesting. He is on a mission to gentrify gambling in America, cleansing it of its associations with high life and low life while delivering it to a suburb near yours as the innocuous extension of the middle-class weekend outing. Wynn's gambling has neither neon, push-up bras nor black-tie croupiers from the French Riviera. In fact it is not even called gambling. "I'm in the recreation business," he insists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Casino Salesman | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

Hairy chests sporting lacy bras, throats ringed with studded collars and bodies thinly veiled in body paint abounded for the night, Harvard had a wild party scene...

Author: By Amanda C. Rawls, | Title: THE WILDER SIDE OF PARTYDOM | 2/6/1993 | See Source »

...dresses in Madonna-style bras, strips on stage and sings about justifying her love, but this songbird's debut album will never make MTV. Lesley Garrett, the English National Opera's untraditional lead soprano, presents a sumptuous assortment of operatic arias on DIVA! A SOPRANO AT THE MOVIES. Her finely colored voice with its firm vibrato is not elitist, and she sings this collection of songs that have made their way into films with a passion and abandon that would make Madonna envious. Garrett's plaintive Voi che sapete, from The Marriage of Figaro, and her flirtatious plotting in Quando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Aug. 31, 1992 | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...time. The middle-aged women in K.T. Oslin's work are busy warning their lovers that they are chronically fickle, are having careers while their ex-husbands have custody of the child, or are just plain contemplating the legacy of their past revolts. "Oh we've burned our bras and we've burned our dinners/ And we've burned our candles at both ends," is her bittersweet assessment in 80's Ladies. Meanwhile, Trisha Yearwood sings about a woman with such a sense of autonomy that she demands men "who will cry on my shoulder" but won't "follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...with firsthand experience of discrimination still refuse to call themselves feminists. There is something in the label that a lot of women, especially young ones, reject even as they acknowledge how much the movement increased the opportunities available to them. Younger women "think of feminists as women who burn bras and don't shave their legs," says Pat Schroeder, dean of Capitol Hill's 29 Congresswomen. "They think of us as the Amazons of the '60s. The facts have no relation to it, but it's become conventional wisdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Against Feminism | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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