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HANDCUFFS, YES. HOT CANDLE WAX DRIPping on Willem Dafoe's naked torso -- that too. But the nipple clamps remain an unfulfilled promise. And so does BODY OF EVIDENCE, in which Madonna plays a woman on trial for murdering a lover by inducing a heart-straining sexual frenzy. It sounds like a promising part for the best-selling author of Sex. But movies get rated, and trying to stay on the sunny side of an R, this one turns into a static courtroom drama -- and not very well made or played either. Madonna's function is to irritate the decorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Feb. 1, 1993 | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...decision means that the law will remain on hold for months to come. What remains to be seen is how it will affect the burgeoning national movement to boycott Colorado until Amendment 2 is reversed. In the past week alone, in a distinctly a-material gesture, singer Madonna said she will shun Colorado "until the amendment is lifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgment Day | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

Perhaps we should welcome the posttrend era. We no longer rush off, herdlike, to become Jesus freaks or Valley Girls at the first hint from the national media. It takes maturity to see a fetching new image -- say Madonna in gold tooth and riding crop -- without thinking, "Hey, wow, that could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Won't Somebody Do Something Silly? | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...curtain, tucking, smoothing, adjusting angles by an imperceptible (to anyone but her) fraction of an inch. Nothing escapes her eye. Everything has to be perfect. "Are you accessorized? . . . I told you I need a beret! . . . Lynn, move the belt!" From out on the runway comes the sound of Madonna singing her version of Peggy Lee's Fever as each model passes through Karan's last-minute scrutiny and touch-up. "Little black glasses! Who's next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donna Karan Inc. | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...hard pressed to name any world leader aside from, perhaps, Boris Yeltsin. Imagine the puzzlement if U.S. headline writers began invoking first names like Helmut (Kohl) or Kiichi (Miyazawa). But all through Europe, Bill and Hillary have suddenly become as familiar as other one-word American icons like Madonna, Magic and McDonald's. Is this Clinton mania merely the latest manifestation of the one eternally booming U.S. industry -- the creation of international celebrities -- or does it speak to something larger about the worldwide perception of both America and its new President-elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton and The Stones of Venice | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

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