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Word: pinup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aspired to it the old way--by being a dignified actress, a chanteuse, a lady--at just the time when pop culture was busting into rowdiness. Bogle says she was "the beauty as loner." That isolation may have scuttled her. Now it makes her a heroine, a nostalgia pinup and a source for the kind of movie role Dorothy Dandridge was rarely lucky enough to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LADY SCREENS THE BLUES | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...public and more complicated, and his personality will be more sharply defined. He is already going to the dances favored by adolescent aristocrats, and already the girls are asking for kisses. By his female contemporaries, Wills is rated as "snoggable," Britspeak for sexy. That attribute has made him a pinup in teenage fanzines, where he has quickly gained a following. Wills is nearly as tall as Diana, and like his mother, he seems to have the best of Spencer good looks. A few years will tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COMES WILLS | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...considered fair game when he ventured into London recently to attend a tony teenage ball. The tabloid Sun promptly established a hot line for girls who had kissed the prince, recently deemed "very fanciable" by the editor of a teen magazine that ran his picture as a pinup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TEST OF WILLS | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

CAROL SHAYA Pinup patrolwoman stripped of her job with the N.Y.P.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Mar. 20, 1995 | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

Remember when popular movies had women in them? In 1994's top films, the ladies were lucky if the guys let them even drive a bus. The typical female role was a captive or a pinup, wounded faun (Forrest Gump) or ditsy wife (True Lies). For its Best Actress prize, the New York Film Critics had to go to a TV movie (The Last Seduction's Linda Fiorentino). Affirmative action is demode these days, but Hollywood needs some spur to bring women into full partnership with the Toms and Arnolds and Simbas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Cinema of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

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