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...nation trading status? That's just what Maher does on Politically Incorrect, his Comedy Central show that features the most eclectic political round tables on TV. Maher has mediated between Harvey Fierstein and ex-Mayor of Washington Marion Barry; brought Martin Short together with Jimmy Breslin; made Tom Hayden lighten up and Corbin Bernsen look smart. All without causing the viewer to feel like a sleaze for watching...
...wedding ceremony and when the minister asks that anyone who objects 'speak now or forever hold your peace', I would take up his offer and speak out against the heterosexist, patriarchal, bourgeois nature of the marriage institution. Perhaps I would throw in a few Crucifixion jokes just to lighten things...
...reach a compromise, O America of the New Prohibition? I'll light up a little less; you lighten up a little more...
Replacing dressing-for-success with dressing-for-sex is no leap forward. Men don't wear tight pants to get a promotion or a new client. By contrast, women lighten, heighten, straighten, curl, iron and bleach their hair. Unwanted hair is ripped out by its roots with hot wax, shaved, electrolyted and depilated. Bound feet may never have caught on here, but high heels that force the entire body weight to rest on the tip of the big toe are a cause of daily anguish...
Time Inc. is seeking other ways to lighten our impact on the environment. For example, Refkin is working on a new program with our paper suppliers that will significantly reduce a troubling side effect of magazine production that has plagued publishers. To whiten magazine stock, paper plants have long used a chlorine bleaching process. In 1985 the Environmental Protection Agency discovered that this procedure produces traces of dioxin, a highly toxic chemical, in waste water at the plants. Looking for ways of solving the problem, TIME asked its mills to substitute a different bleaching process that does not produce...