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Truth be told, most of the people who saw Interview are not likely to queue up for the latest James adaptation, more frightened by the corset-friendly dresses on the poster than they ever will be of Tom Cruise in fangs. By the same token, one has no trouble thinking back three years and imagining James fans professing the deepest scorn for an entertainment as broadly-targeted as Interview With the Vampire. see Brad howl! hear Tom cackle...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reconciling Highbrow, Big-Budget Films | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...friend agrees. "Everything has been done, and everything has been stood for, everything has been fought over, and now it's basically like there is no more debate," says Alexandra, whose prim black cocktail dress and silver-buckled black vinyl corset (worn on the outside) make her a techno-goth--for the day at least. She is passionately apathetic, as if to spite her father, who demonstrated against the war from the City College of New York to Berkeley and who by his own count was arrested "about 11 times." But isn't there still poverty and inequity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT AIN'T US, BABE | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...COVERED BY ANY H.M.O. Snake oil salesmen, beware. The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in Minneapolis features 200 years of scientific chicanery, including a male "corset'' that generated a small shock to enhance the wearer's love life and the Nemectron, right, a gadget that supposedly overcame age's ravages, cured acne and lifted fallen arches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 17, 1997 | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...last Monday, one day before Sun's unveiling, to announce their version of a $1,000 network computer--one that runs on Intel Pentium chips, supports Microsoft Windows and Windows NT, and includes a hard drive, just like a standard personal computer. "I call it a PC in a corset," scoffs Sun's McNealy. "They can pull the strings as tight as they want, but it's still a PC." McNealy claims that the Microsoft-Intel initiative was organized over the weekend just to take the wind out of Sun's sails, a charge Microsoft denies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

...only person on campus who is utterly repelled by the sight of corset-clad grotesques high-kicking in a chorus line? Apparently so, judging from the accolades which have been heaped on this year's Hasty Pudding show...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Pudding Ritual is a Drag | 2/28/1995 | See Source »

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