Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holds a doctorate in women's studies from Yale, and Marcelle Karp, a 34-year-old TV producer, Bust is a magazine intentionally written in teenspeak but meant for female readers in their late 20s and early 30s. It was developed as an antidote to magazines like Cosmopolitan, which present female sexuality so cartoonishly. However noble the intent, the message is often lost in the magazine's adolescent tone: read about an adult woman's first-time vibrator discoveries or a scintillating account of lust for delivery men in an article titled "Sex with the UPS Guy." Of the magazine...
Last week former Green Beret officer John L. Plaster, who was present in Vietnam when the soldiers returned from the mission in Laos, said in an op-ed piece in the New York Times that sarin gas had not been used. He also disputed the allegation made by CNN's sources that the mission's purpose was to kill American defectors. CNN had quoted one officer on the mission saying he had seen and killed two defectors. Questions have subsequently been raised about his credibility. This officer and a sergeant said they were told by their Montagnard mercenaries there were...
...such disorders, according to the nonprofit group Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention. "I don't think in local communities and in schools we're seeing any real flowering of girl power," says Joan Brumberg, author of The Body Project, which draws on diary entries from Victorian times to the present to argue that girls have increasingly defined themselves in terms of their looks. Although she believes that girls need their own cultural icons, Brumberg is worried that celebrities inevitably reinforce the notion that appearance is the only source of female power...
...stuff. And in its little way it does. But the largest pleasure of this very small film, which is being promoted as the first feature largely created by Native Americans, lies in the relationship between its two young travelers. Off the reservation where they were born and raised, they present contrasting faces to the outside world. Victor wants to be silent, stoic, dangerously enigmatic--sort of an old-fashioned movie Indian. Thomas, who seems to be Alexie's surrogate, is, in contrast, a slightly nerdy puppy. And a motormouth, spinning funny, folkish tales, trying to humanize his wary friend...
...perverse" impact of the economic sanctions against Iraq. But Etchegaray--who is the Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations--was also laying groundwork for a papal visit. The thinking is that the Pope will visit biblical sites, including Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, in present-day Iraq. Other tantalizing events for 2000, in the talking stage, are a summit meeting for world Christian leaders and an interreligious gathering, Jews and Muslims included, on Egypt's Mount Sinai...