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Like sex, the videotaping experience ranges from disappointing to exciting. Mary and Tom, Chicago investment bankers who checked into a local hotel with just a video camera, were mortified by the way poor lighting and camera angles distorted their overweight bodies. Fred, a professor, and Nina, a schoolteacher, recorded themselves in a candlelit bubble bath, and wound up elated. The Manhattan couple, married 20 years, have filmed three more tub trysts, complete with strawberries and whipped cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sex Lives and Videotape | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...group's primary emphasis is on opposing theCLT petition and supporting Democratic SenatorJohn F. Kerry's re-election bid, said Nina Nowak'93, director of the club's anti-CLT campaign...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Campus Democrats Snub Silber | 10/9/1990 | See Source »

Having fled over the Wall in 1976, Nina Hagen discovered the brave new world of punk music. Hagen, 35, learned her craft by singing along to tapes of Tina Turner and Janis Joplin, "although I couldn't speak a word of English." She got started in East Berlin's jazz circuit and has since emerged as an international rock star. Meantime, she has made more changes than Madonna, festooning herself with chains and wearing metal bras, wild wigs and ghoulish makeup. On her latest album, Hagen pounds out a number titled Gorbachev Rap. After all, she explains, it's important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Rap It Up | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...narrator, daughter Nina, is a photographer. Hence the novel's title, which suggests the documentation of the Eberhardt chronicle from 1940 to 1985. Nina's task is to make sense out of the Randall effect. It emerges slowly in the weave of story lines about the lives and times of Nina's parents and siblings. Her climactic musing over the family photos arranged before her: "Which had the most power? Freud? That analytic version of my parents' life, which insisted that Randall -- and their misery -- had its source in my mother's wackiness and should be struggled against, fought, cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Focal Points FAMILY PICTURES by Sue Miller | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

Leningrad writer Nina Katerli first heard about the bizarre leaflet from a friend. A cooperative venture called EXODUS was announcing plans for a special event to take place at 4 a.m. on March 13. Anyone seeking information was advised to call Katerli's home telephone. A noted author of moral parables, Katerli is of Jewish, Russian and Polish descent and has become used to such crude ethnic provocations ever since she started drawing public attention to anti-Semitism in the Russian nationalist movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whispers of Hatred | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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