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...claimed the correspondence of Sigmund Freud sparked his desire to make clothes that a child might see while looking through the keyhole of his mother's boudoir. (Presumably Mrs. G. was not a T.J. Maxx shopper.) The show was staged as a mock wedding, with cross-bearing mandarins and gorilla women strolling down the runway to a sound track of orgasmic moans. A few were outraged, but most fashion pros merely chuckled. As Freud might have said, sometimes a gorilla woman is just a gorilla woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 24, 2000 | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but not if that girl happens to have had both her hands chopped off by Sierra Leone rebels who're financed by the little gems. You'd think this was information that De Beers, the 500-pound gorilla of the diamond industry, would want to keep as far as possible from the minds of young lovers shopping for an adornment to symbolize their commitment. And you'd be wrong. De Beer's, in fact, wants every diamond shopper to know that the industry has sustained years of violence that has claimed tens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why De Beers Wants You 'Blood Diamond'-Savvy | 7/13/2000 | See Source »

...make a good act - straight man and joker. Sort of Abbott and Costello." "Seriously, though," Bush rejoined, "we do make a team. We complement each other. I could be brighter, and Al's not quite sure who he is. But together, hell, we're an 800-pound gorilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Announcing a New Mega-Merger: Bush-Gore Inc. | 6/28/2000 | See Source »

...Bucking the prevailing trend of what's derisively called "gorilla baseball" in the college game and "the NL Central" in the pros--relying on juiced-up batters drilling juiced-up balls for double-digit run totals--Walsh's Crimson played baseball so throwback that watching it, you felt like it should have been in black-and-white...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dan-nie Baseball: One Last Time Around the Park | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Harvard can't escape the fact that it's often viewed as a 500-pound gorilla, and it becomes a lightening rod," Power says. "In a political setting, it makes the challenges of creating a constructive dialogue with neighborhood groups even more difficult...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Splintered Partnership: Harvard, City Spar Publicly | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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