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Kids clearly rule when it comes to playing dress-up and Jean explains that "adults are more into period clothes, playboy bunnies, regular stuff, monkeys--y'know, with the organ grinder." Either costumes for adults are overly involved--incorporating rented masks, wigs and clothing--or terribly boring (e.g. "I'm going as myself."). Kid Supermen and Jasmines concur: "time to give it up, grownups...

Author: By Yo-el Ju, | Title: cHiLD's PlaY | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

Figure skater KATARINA WITT, 32, is not known for being demure. Her interpretation of Carmen at the 1988 Winter Olympics turned the term ice queen upside down. But for years the East German skater has resisted Playboy's attempts to melt her remaining inhibitions. Until now. In its December issue, the magazine will feature a 10-page pictorial on Witt, stripped of skates, sequins and, yes, even her gold medals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...Percentage of college students who told Playboy they were virgins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

Sources: New York Times; Park Central Hotel; Playboy; Statistical Abstract of the United States; Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...Williams' richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel. He showed early talent as a debater and an advocate--at age six he persuaded his mother to simplify the spelling of his name from Thoroughgood--but even more as a class clown and budding playboy. Indeed, it was not until he arrived at Howard University School of Law in 1930 and fell under the spell of its tough-minded dean, Charles Hamilton Houston, that the contours of Marshall's mission began to form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grand Marshall | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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