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...prim Hot Lips Houlihan as a secret sexpot worthy of being exposed before the entire company as she took a shower. The curtain falls, Hot Lips is revealed naked, the medics applaud at their practical joke and feminism takes a nasty hit. (I could name one young bride who, after storming out of a screening room at the end of that shower scene, literally went home to her mother, telling her husband, "I don't want to live with someone who thinks that is funny.") Altman continued to be pursued by this reputation as a prankster on all humanity, depantsing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Robert Altman | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...purchase for their mates, I find diamond engagement rings so one-sided. They're like dowries for the modern man. The bigger the ring, the better off he is and the more he can provide for his wife-to-be. At least an old-fashioned dowry given by the bride's family was generally discussed privately and the money and goods went towards the new matrimonial home. A diamond just sits ostentatiously on a woman's hand for all to see (that is, when it's not getting lost in the sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debating the Desire for a Diamond | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

...international following for his passionate sermons and purported faith-healing prowess, shocked the Catholic Church in 2001 by suddenly marrying a South Korean woman in Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Milingo later patched things up with the Vatican, which simply never recognized his marriage to his handpicked bride, who held a weeks-long sit-in protest in St. Peter's Square, demanding her husband back. Milingo later published a book in which he repented his marital vows, and was eventually placed in a backwater Italian diocese where Church officials could keep an eye on him. But two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope Lays Down the Law on Celibacy | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

...threatens to steal Brooks from Arlen. But under his rags, he can be noble - a member of the hobocracy - and facilitates an improbable happy ending. Beggars of Life was an unusually solemn project for Brooks, and her character must tilt from plaintive hoyden to, at the end, a child bride dressed in Gish garb. But she proves she can be earnest and yearning and winsome every bit as convincingly as she is cool and seductive and corrosive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lulu-Louise at 100 | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...Percentage of young Indian men surveyed by the magazine India Today who claim to have slept with a prostitute 63% Percentage of young Indian men who, according to the same survey, hope their bride is a virgin on their wedding night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

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