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Word: lindsays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago, Assistant Professor of Economics Lawrence Lindsay, an adviser to Vice President George Bush and Robert Kuttner, a pro-Michael S. Dukakis columnist, debated the future economic course of this country at the Kennedy School. They talked a lot about the trade debt, the budget deficit and the impact of proposed programs on the rich and middle class...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Cease-Fire on Poverty | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...claims to read Rudolph Valention's lips. Won't talk to answering machines. And what legs...Lindsay's legs," the ad reads...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Ms.--A New Cosmo? | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...than about the presidential election and the trade deficit. The magazines that feature articles on "10 Ways to Get and Keep a Man" or "My Garden, My Hobby." One would assume that harmless articles like that would appear in the magazine that carried such an ad as "Reflections on Lindsay...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Ms.--A New Cosmo? | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...Hanes targeted the new Ms. magazine to sell the Lindsay ad. That's right, the mouthpiece of the movement, Gloria Steinem's brainchild, now sells silky pantyhose and sexual stereotypes along with consciousness-raising and feminist politics...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Ms.--A New Cosmo? | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Advertisements, while perhaps an economic necessity, represented the first, gigantic slip from the prescribed feminist political agenda. Ms. may be owned by women, but companies like Hanes and Revlon control the magazine's future now. And since sex sells, it is unlikely that the businesses behind "Lindsay's legs" will change the content of their advertisements to reflect the editorial interests of the editors...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Ms.--A New Cosmo? | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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