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...year, Playboy has decided to discourage souvenir collectors by issuing new certificates. Printed for the first time last week, the shares depict a "classically styled" woman holding aloft a globe to symbolize the company's international ambitions. Most notably, she is robed in a long, flowing gown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STOCKS: Playboy Covers Up | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...house; and where previous speakers have included Shirley Chisholm, Gloria Steinem and Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich. Barbara Bush wasn't Wellesley's first choice this year; that honor went to Alice Walker, black author, single mother and Pulitzer prizewinner, who declined. To women in cap and gown who have worked hard to be able to make it on their own, having a wife and mother on the podium may feel too diminishing, like getting on Nightline and then having to wave to your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Love Got to Do with It? | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...voted to support the candidacy of David Scondras '67-'68 for the Harvard Board of Overseers. Councillors said that Scondras, a fourth-term Boston city councillor, would be uniquely sensistive to the important town-gown relationship between Harvard and the greater Boston area...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: City Manager Defends Parking Freeze Policy | 4/24/1990 | See Source »

...strawberry blond hair, and directors always want her to forgo wearing hairpieces. But she feels she cannot play a character without an element of disguise. Last July, when she appeared in the inaugural performance at the new Bastille opera house in Paris, Anderson was unhappy with her specially designed gown from the French couturier Ungaro. She promptly began pulling it apart. To the rescue of French couture -- and that evening's gala -- rode "a nice man who got down on his knees and began pinning." His name? Pierre Berge, Yves Saint Laurent's multimillionaire business partner and France's culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diva with A Difference | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...bronze of George Washington. He had the last note from departing Ronald Reagan ("Don't let the turkeys get you down") cast in plastic and placed on his picture-collection table behind his desk, and recently added a black-and-white photograph of Barbara in her wedding gown 45 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Totaling Up Year One | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

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