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...JEANE, which is half Steinem's text and half photographs by George Barris, is both an earnest revisionist history and a coffee-table decoration wrapped in one glossy volume. Steinem attempts to debunk the endless, and accumulating, Marilyn myths and cast Monroe in a role more realistic than diamond-digger Lorelei Lee could ever...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Searching for Norma Jeane | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...front--a crazy idea that is now standard.) Post edits Technology and Culture and is also a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. The fine points of dragster design have moved him to write: "I have found no human artifact that pleases me more than an earthshaking, fire-breathing 'digger,' blown and on fuel . . ." What counts in drag racing, he says, is individual ingenuity. The people who have it aren't just hot rodders but a variety of that American hero, the seat-of-the-pants technological innovator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Old-Fashioned Ingenuity on Wheels | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Andy Janfaza was a hard-nosed digger, not a famous scorer...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Crimson Stuns Favored Pioneers, 5-2 | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...when the machine asked the hard-nosed digger to get a goal for him in the Harvard's game against Denver in the semifinal of the NCAA Tournament at the Providence Civic Center Friday, Janfaza, the fourth-line forward, listened...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Crimson Stuns Favored Pioneers, 5-2 | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...feminist sexuality. Although to her it's a joke, Madonna's "Boy Toy" belt buckle offends almost everyone except the Wanna Be's. Those who snoozed through the '50s the first time around are mystified. Some feminists clearly feel that Madonna's self-parody as an eye-batting gold digger, notably in her song Material Girl, is a joke too damaging to laugh at. Somebody has said that her high, thin voice, which is merely adequate for her energetic but not very demanding dance-pop songs, sounds like "Minnie Mouse on helium." Other detractors suggest that she is almost entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Madonna Rocks the Land | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

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