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...become an immortal diva, it wasn't mandatory to die young, but it couldn't hurt. Jean Harlow succumbed to kidney disease at 26, after starring for Þve years as MGM's cheekiest blond. In this 1933 ensemble comedy, Harlow, billed fourth, steals the show as Wallace Beery's conniving wife. An affront to the society swells she meets, she was catnip to amass audience who saw her as their stand-in, with a sailor's mouth and a heart of the purest brass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DVDs: 6 Diva DVDs Worth Your Time | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...Lipton Brisk Iced Tea "Frank Sinatra" A Claymation version of Ol' Blue Eyes hawking iced tea remains the year's cheekiest and most memorable celebrity endorsement. The Chairman's concert is over, the fans want more, but Frank wants out. What gets him energized for an encore? Not a Chivas, Clyde, but a swig of Brisk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST ADVERTISING OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

Walesa and his allies are discovering the cruelty of the ironic punishment that the Greek goddess Nemesis reserved for her cheekiest victims: granting their very desires. Solidarity's success at the polls exposes the fact that for all its popularity, it has no program or philosophy. Its leaders are dancing desperately to avoid being forced to share power with the Communists. It is as if the penalty one pays for losing an election in Poland is having to be in power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: A Freer, but Messier, Order | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...Wilderness" is the cheekiest report TIME has written on Reagan. Bravo! After 200-plus days of presidential honeymoon and vacation it's time we turn the other cheek. As a small-business owner in a building construction-related field, I can't afford even a three-day vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 14, 1981 | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...London Times called it "the cheekiest of parliamentary guides," but a few members of Britain's House of Commons have been less complimentary about The M.P. 's Chart. The 83-page booklet is a collection of irreverent thumbnail descriptions of British politicians written by Manchester Evening News Correspondent Andrew Roth. In Roth's updated pocket guide, Andrew Faulds, a Labor M.P. and former actor, is dismissed as "tall, bearded, rude, sextrovert." Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher rates a more splendid oxymoron: "blonde, stainless-steel Dresden china." Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe is characterized as a "middlebrow, U.S.-style show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 31, 1975 | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

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