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...most heavily promoted design debuts was Go, the world's first chair in magnesium, a metal lighter than aluminum. For a humble stacking chair it wasn't cheap--$700 and up--but Go has a lot going for it. The spindly silhouette by designer Ross Lovegrove has the glamour of liquid mercury. Just sitting, the thing looks like it's launching into warp drive. An overhyped one-season wonder? We think this chair has legs...
...only cringe with disgust at the “Do” for fishies everywhere in the December Glamourscope. “Do make a wild New Year’s Eve resolution (yes, even ‘Get hitched in 2002’).” Whoa there, Glamour. I know this whole astrology thing is a big joke we inexplicably like to include in the morning paper and call 1-800 numbers about, but since when is it okay to slip a little tidbit like that into a harmless parenthesis. The reading “Do make...
...even better thing that the "Do" predicted for Virgos in this issue of Glamour is more to my liking. "Do have fun." See there, a simple imprecise horoscope that will apply nicely to you, me and the 219,000 other people who read it and take the whole business, of course, with a grain of salt...
...approached adulthood, my leisurely reading material progressed to Cosmopolitan and Glamour. Each month, the covers of both magazines are dominated by headlines relating to sex. Often, I have wished for a sex filter so I could abscond from the latest kama sutra special, from the array of sexual positions and sex-infiltrated list of ways to satisfy...
Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Maxim are not bad magazines: In addition to sex, they also encourage emotional well-being and emphasize the importance of committed relationships. The problems arise when those magazines, and other channels of popular culture, make sex seem required. Though “Sex and the City” has given many young adults increased sexual confidence, it has also influenced many women to think that sex is only about power and self-satisfaction. Popular icons, who serve as role models for many young people—often via music, movies and public appearances—take casual...