Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cosmopolitan, which professes to offer lifestyle advice for the modern woman, is popular precisely because it is frivolous, Semerjian says. "Isn't it one of those that has the really silly articles on how to get a man?" she asks...
...racks of women's magazines may all look the same, but they have very specific audiences. The women who seek diet tips in Self generally aren't the ones scanning the horoscopes in Cosmopolitan...
...Souwi's cohorts in the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, had kidnapped an Israeli soldier, eventually executing him and killing one commando involved in a rescue attempt. Others had sprayed a pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem with machine-gun fire, killing two. Now Tel Aviv, the country's most cosmopolitan and carefree city, where Israelis feel most removed from the conflict with their neighbors, was under attack. The force of Souwi's bomb was so intense that the bus was reduced to fragments. Parts of victims were blown ; through windows. Police officers fainted; reporters sobbed at the sight...
Brewer rebutted with the "cosmopolitan" contention that people should see themselves as responsible to all humanity, not just one community...
Among the less reticent were people who are paid to discuss sex: therapists, Cosmopolitan editors, Penthouse publishers. "Dr. Ruth Westheimer suggested that one option left out of the study's sexual-preferences section was sex under the armpit," says New York correspondent John F. Dickerson. "Helen Gurley Brown explained her 'rent a husband' theory, where an older single woman can get a married man who 'would be happy to oblige because he's probably not getting it at home.' And Bob Guccione told me he had never met a man who had not masturbated or a woman...