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...festooned with iridescent jewels--but they are actually dried beetle wings, intended to replicate Elizabethan materials. When Paltrow's character pretends to be a boy, she wears a top with embroidery delicate enough to remind us that she is female. But Powell also put birdseed pouches in the crotch of Paltrow's breeches so the actress would remember to walk like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Designing Woman | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...sitcoms--has a whole new series, World's Most Amazing Videos (previously promoted as World's Scariest Videos), premiering on NBC on March 3. It's kind of like World's Funniest Videos, with the keen distinction that on the new series, men don't get hit in the crotch on purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: When Good Networks Go Bad | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...that life is complicated and people often make a mess of it. It's complicated and messy in ways the language of politics can't describe or even acknowledge. They may think Hillary doesn't love him, or they may think all men have their brains in their crotch, or they may think Monica made it too easy, or they may have no theory at all. But while Washington boils the narrative down to issues--adultery, lies under oath--Americans who come to the story out of human interest rather than professional obligation are more likely to fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outrage That Wasn't | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

According to Ms. Lewinsky, when the President reached past her at the rope line to shake hands with another guest, she reached out and touched his crotch in a "playful" fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Juicy Parts | 9/11/1998 | See Source »

...purity of the early, "primitive" machine. On the other hand, motorcycle design in the '80s and '90s--especially in Japan--tended to enclose the machinery in baroque, forward-raked shells, bodywork that "floats" above the wheels and is loaded with sexual suggestion. Hence the argot for them: crotch rockets. What began as a proletarian vehicle (cheap transport for folks who couldn't afford a car) has turned into an expensive, deliberate body metaphor. The car may be your wife/husband, but the bike is your Fatal Lover, and there's no way around that: if it weren't true, there would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Going Out On The Edge | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

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