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Recently, a friend of mine succinctly explained the difference between pornography and erotica: Lowbrows beat off to pornography. High-brows beat off to erotica. With the release of her album, Erotica, and her much-hyped coffee table pornography book, Sex, Madonna demonstrates just how synonymous the two terms really are...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: HIGH-BROW PORN: | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

Perot brought his "Tell It to Hanoi!" campaign to the Texas state capitol in 1971 on what may still be the single weirdest day in the history of that peculiar institution. Jets roared over Austin in "missing man" formation, while beneath the rotunda, in hour after hour of bloodstained oratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Billionaire Boy Scout: ROSS PEROT | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

You had to be completely out of touch -- or heavily sedated -- all last week not to have got the word. Bulletins were broadcast hourly from TV and radio stations around the world. Warnings were issued by the FBI, by London's Scotland Yard and by Japan's international trade ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ding! Whrrrrrrrrrrrr. Crash! | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

I was stunned by their motivation, and tried to exchange glances of mutual sympathy with the other students at the interview who also had not done any background reading. Instead, I encountered furrowed brows and hands raised to speak! No fewer than five consecutive comments began, "Now I haven't...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: No Respect For Practical Jokers | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

Once upon a time, actors like Spencer Tracy (in Stanley and Livingstone) strode off to explore Africa with their pith helmets set squarely on their brows, their bush jackets neatly pressed and a chorus bawling Onward, Christian Soldiers on the sound track.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Grand, Ferocious Folly | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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