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...draw on "all my favorite old clothes -- trench coats, pajamas, pea coats, letter sweaters. My bride will be a prom queen, maybe in a big, reversible skirt." To get himself in the mood, he runs around Greenwich Village, where he has bought a brownstone, in his father's old camel-hair topcoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: But Gordon, I Want It All: Gordon Henderson | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...claiming "a very significant victory." In a pale but disturbing analogue of the Lysenko affair, scientific judgments have been alloyed, if only slightly, with politico-religious dogma, creating / an unwelcome precedent for a nation that needs to stay even -- in some cases to catch up -- with its competitors. The camel's nose is now in the tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Dissent, Dogma and Darwin's Dog | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...example, when a husband in the study made a joke about housework, she accuses him of denying the problems in his home. (In fact, he did deny them, but not because of the joke.) At worst, Hochschild chastises a father as a bad parent for refusing to do a "camel walk" with his baby...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: It's Dad's Turn To Do the Dishes | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

...well be U.S. cigarettes because we believe in nondiscrimination." Cigarette makers also insist that they are not inspiring new smokers but offering better choices for people who already have a taste for nicotine. Says Brenda Follmer, a spokeswoman for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco International, which sells the Winston , and Camel brands: "People say we are trying to make the Asians light up. But they're already lighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fuming Over A Hazardous Export | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...antismoking crusaders who want to ban cigarette advertising, the Camel ad was a handy piece of evidence. "The most appalling in decades," declared physician Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen, a Washington consumer group. The four-page Camel ad, which was aimed at vacation-bound youths, offered tips like "how to impress someone at the beach: Run into the water, grab someone and drag her back to the shore, as if you've saved her from drowning. The more she kicks and screams the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Is the Camel A Sexist Pig? | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

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