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ASKED TO DEFINE THE IDEALIZED WOMAN WHO HAS COME TO BE known as the Cosmo Girl, editor in chief Helen Gurley Brown once replied, "She has always been sexy, slender and bosomy." The latter adjective--so evocative of old-fashioned feminine allure, of torpedo bras and Pursettes, of Helen Gurley Brown herself (though she is actually wafer thin)--describes what is probably the Cosmo Girl's most famous attribute. "A beautiful bosom is a beautiful bosom," Brown elaborated. "If you don't have one, you look on with awe and envy...
...profited handsomely therefrom. She concocted an instantly successful editorial voice that encouraged her single readers to pursue sex as freely and doggedly as men, at the same time instructing them in the more traditional, and more consuming, art of husband trapping. I made the mistake of thinking the Cosmo Girl, like the Man Who Reads Playboy, was something of an anachronism--until I saw Waiting to Exhale and its cast of supposedly independent women defined by their ability to hook, or not hook, a man. The audience loved it. Brown's vision will endure...
...into 13 languages, was to chart the parabolic trajectory of a love, while showing that charts tell us nothing we need to know of love. De Botton looked at the sophistries of the heart with a mix of pop psychology and learning that made his novel sing like a Cosmo article ghost-written by Descartes...
Peter K. Bol, professor of Chinese history, was re-elected to the council. William H. Bossert, Arnold professor of science and master of Lowell House; Nicola Di Cosmo, assistant professor or professor of Chinese and inner Asian history; George B. Field, Willson professor of applied astronomy; Theda Skocpol, professor of sociology; and Judith D. Vichniac, lecturer in social studies, have been elected to three-year terms...
...someone who greets me, she takes that I've forgotten their name and introduces herself. Fortunately, my boyfriend has the same name as my roommate's long-time significant other, so I remember his name fairly well. (It helps that "Chris" is relatively easy to spell and pronounce.) Cosmo and Vogue may not realize it, but for non-together people, the name recognition factor can be significant in the search for the perfect mate...