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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...condemnation was accompanied by a warning: "If peace signifies debauchery and delinquency, it won't see the light of day. And if tourism means lust among the ruins, we will destroy these temples on the heads of the evildoers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep In Kidnapper Country | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

Women are not unanimous in supporting the idea of females in combat. Even within the armed forces, combat lust is more widespread among female officers than enlisted servicewomen. "What we're seeing," says Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University, "is a push by female officers and civilian feminists." Moskos and others argue that introducing the notion of combat equality may sharply reduce the number of women who enlist and could cause problems in the future if the draft is ever reinstated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The New Top Guns | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...work. As Singer's rickety Yiddish typewriter chattered away, the ghettos of the Middle Ages rose up again, with a cast of erotic shtetl dwellers and phosphorescent imps. The Jews of 20th century Europe, consumed by the Nazi death camps, were granted the powers of speech and lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Teller of Tales | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...away with it. In Red Dust she was Clark Gable's lover, pal and lover again, taking it all in her sashaying stride. These movies were made in 1932, yet they are more mature than many current films -- more aware of love's compromises and lust's attractions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't A Woman Be a Man? | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...millions of committed Christians, the late '80s brought agonizing disillusionment. One after another, some of the country's most prominent Protestant televangelists revealed themselves as pious pretenders, driven by lust or avarice or unsaintly ego. Perhaps most distressing was the ammunition the scandals gave to the skeptical and scornful. While erstwhile believers in Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart and Marvin Gorman winced at the exposes of dalliance and the unconvincing protestations of repentance, countless other Americans were laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feuds: God and Money Part 9 | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

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