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Parks has garnered much admiration and infamy among Nashville Pussy's fans, as much for the clear brassiere she wears at shows as for her musical talent. She towers at a height of six feet, three inches (6'7" including her boots and cowboy hat)--at Nashville Pussy shows, she blows fire into the crowd by spewing liquor from her mouth onto an open flame and often kicks her male admirers in the head...

Author: By Myung! H. Joh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: They Came from the Grand 'Ole Opry | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...remarked, rather direly, "I have to last." Then he reflected that although the new novel in progress was supposed to bring Aubrey full circle, "I'm not sure whether I shan't take him a bit beyond full circle, with one or two incidents at the very height of the Royal Navy's glory. I should like simply for my own amusement--and because I don't really see how I can bear easily to live without writing--and at least for my own pleasure--to write one more, or perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Square-Rigged Saga | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...have affected sales, but all will acknowledge that fur has not been getting great press until recently. It's not just the colorful, celebrity-studded campaign from the anti-fur folks; it's the vague sensibility that a big plush fur on anyone born after 1930 either is the height of '80s ostentation or smacks of trying too hard--what some people call the DKAA (Donna Karan for Administrative Assistants) look. "Until two years ago," says Sandy Parker, the industry's eminence grise and the publisher of a fur newsletter, Sandy Parker Reports, "younger people weren't anti-fur; they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Warming Up To Fur | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...award for statistics went to Dr. JeraldBain of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto and KerrySiminoski of the University of Alberta for their"carefully measured" report, "The RelationshipAmong Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ig Nobels Awarded In Zany Ceremony | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

About six miles from the Eiffel Tower, construction could begin soon on another outsize and controversial millennial project: a $42 million Earth Tower rising on wooden struts, bisected by restaurant and exhibition space and crowned by a floral halo of metallic petals. At 650 ft.--a height that will require passage of a special law in parliament--it would command stunning vistas comparable to those of the Eiffel and Montparnasse. Meanwhile, the Pompidou Center, with one of the biggest collections of 20th century paintings, is scheduled to reopen its doors at midnight Jan. 1, 2000, after being partly closed since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Will You Be...December 31, 1999? | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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