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...sticks the tail between his legs to keep it from coiling free and hangs the snake's fangs over a glass beaker. When he squeezes, a teaspoon of venom drips out. Then he walks around the pit giving spectators a close-up of the snake's satiny pink mouth, its curved fangs, black tongue. When Kelly Head, 19, the new Miss Snake Charmer, gets into the demonstration pit with Bill Ransberger, the snake handler, and picks up a snake, her hands shake a little. "Beauty and the beast," pronounces Ransberger, as the audience & applauds. "I always look for a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: A Local Spring Rite | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...editor of the gritty New York Post wears white linen skirts, a string of pearls and pink nail polish, and she comes from Philadelphia's genteel Main Line. Last week, after announcing the appointment of Magazine Veteran Jane Amsterdam to the top slot at one of the last bastions of no-holds-barred, spit-in-the-eye tabloid journalism, the Post's owner, Real Estate Magnate Peter Kalikow, presented her with a T shirt emblazoned with the paper's now legendary April 15, 1983, headline HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR. As earthy Post newsroom veterans (uncomfortably adorned in ties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Now She's Queen for a Daily | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Pratt, who worked briefly at Teen and McCall's before being recruited by Yates, says Sassy is much more difficult to edit than its conversational tone would suggest. "Coming up with story ideas is still a stretch," she remarks, sitting in her uncluttered pink office overlooking Manhattan's Times Square. After only three issues, Sassy already has a circulation of 280,000, a figure Yates predicts will balloon to 1 million over the next five years. That would put Sassy in the same league as its chief competitors, Seventeen (circ. 1.86 million) and Teen (circ. 1.19 million), and make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: From Feminists to Teenyboppers | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

What next? A little magic. Astrology, a radiance in pink housecoat and mules, looking eerily like Shirley MacLaine, dances from the shadows, out the door, and floats into a previous life. That's entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Five-and-Dime Charms of Astrology | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...HUCTW victory is certain to influence otherunion campaigns, these expert said. And, even ifHUCTW fails to win a majority, its pink-collarorganizing strategy will still affect campaigns atother private universities, they said...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Union Election Is Landmark | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

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