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Square-jawed and white-haired, Republican Roger Jepsen of Iowa is the very picture of senatorial splendor. His distinguished demeanor, however, belies a propensity for personal blunders. Last June an Iowa reporter uncovered an application he had signed in 1977 for membership in a "leisure spa" that advertised "nude modeling, nude encounters and nude rap sessions." Jepsen explained that he had joined in "a moment of weakness" that occurred before he became a born-again Christian and won his surprising 1978 victory over liberal Senator Dick Clark. Last year Jepsen was stopped for driving alone in a lane reserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: Embattled Heartland Republicans | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

Starion has big, round, blue eyes and feathery blond hair. She is interested in parapsychology and gymnastics. She beat 27 other women in a modeling and talent contest to become the Penthouse Pet of the of the Year and be featured nude this month--just before the second installment of the controversial Vanessa Williams pictures. Starion also won $1 million worth of sable furs, jewelry, cars, stereo equipment and other prizes...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Penthouse Pet Visits Harvard Square | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

Considering the debacle over nude photographs that led to the resignation of last year's winner, the judges' choice of Miss Utah as the new Miss America seemed made in promotional heaven. Sharlene Wells, 20, began her reign last week by promising a return to "traditional values." The 120-lb., 5-ft. 8-in. blond daughter of a Mormon missionary does not smoke, drink, take drugs, believe in abortion, condone premarital sex or back the Equal Rights Amendment ("The ERA would make us a neuter society; I prefer to be a woman"). A communications major at Brigham Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 1, 1984 | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...describes the delicate and bittersweet technique of breaking in a new car as analogous to making love to a virgin. Chicago Artist Luis Jimenez's pastel study for his sculpture The American Dream shows a car, as Gerald Silk describes it in the museum publication, "ravishing a voluptuous nude female; breasts rhyme visually with hubcaps and headlights, hair with fenders, belly and buttocks with hood and trunk." Edward Kienholz's sculpture Back Seat Dodge '38 shows a truncated car, its front seat removed. In the back, a chicken-wire man and plaster woman are wrapped in beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Auto-Intoxication in Los Angeles | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...Palmer, 38, former Baltimore Orioles pitcher and current ABC commentator and Jockey underwear model, on the recent Miss America controversy: "That's why I always posed in my underwear instead of in the nude. I was afraid they'd take away my Cy Young awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 3, 1984 | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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