Word: queens
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Phair's guitar playing has a likeable, warbling strangeness; she is developing into a stronger, more varied songwriter. Her best new track, May Queen, has a melody that ranges more widely than the ones in her previous compositions, and her songs sometimes break out of the verse-chorus-verse penitentiary of most rock 'n' roll. Shane, for example, has no chorus. It's about disquiet before a war, and it ends with Phair repeatedly singing, "You've gotta have fear in your heart," an unsettlingly effective close...
Kinsey had some shocking news for mid-century America: women enjoy sex. In the cover story Henry Anatole Grunwald (later a TIME managing editor and TIME Inc. editor-in-chief) elegantly examined the emergence of 20th century American women from "under Queen Victoria's long shadow." These liberated souls were "by no means as frigid as they have been made out." Nearly all of them "went in for petting." Even older generations engaged in such hot pastimes as "flirting, flirtage, courting, bundling, spooning, mugging, smooching, larking, sparking." And all women needed romantic attention -- "generalized emotional stimulation," in Kinsey's starchy...
...Queen Elizabeth II, clad in full-length fur and trademark pillbox hat, landed at Moscow's airport for the first-ever Russian visit by a reigning British monarch. The trip, proposed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin during a recent stay at Buckingham Palace, was widely billed as a signal that cold war tensions between the two nations are over. While the Queen -- still, technically, Britain's head of state -- won't be penning any treaties or declarations, TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says the Pope-style stopover matters: "She doesn't say anything political, but the fact is, where...
Although some drivers seem faceless to students, others have achieved an unusual renown. Mary E. Baker '95, a student-driver of shuttle vans and resident of North House, has a following rivaling that of the Grateful Dead. Some call her "The Shuttle Queen...
Currently there are no less than three movies playing in the Square that address this time-honored and classic cinematic subject: that old standby, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," and two new entries in the cross-dressing cavalcade, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "Ed Wood...