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...Perfect for You). In the $250,000 video out this week, she gets her lanky legs waxed, dunks herself in a milk bath and even undergoes pseudo psychoanalysis with Guru Timothy Leary. Of course, Jones has always had a sizable appetite for fashion overstatement, so she did not shrink from slipping her 5-ft. 9-in. frame into a 30-ft. by 60- ft. dress. And she tops off the reckless excess with phantasmagoric headgear that looks like a co-creation by Medusa and Dr. Seuss. Proclaims Jones: "The audience sees me as a larger-than-life image they...
...important for women," said Winnifred Cutler, a biologist and specialist in behavioral endocrinology who conducted the study along with Organic Chemist George Preti. "If you look at all the data, the conclusion is compelling. A man or his essence seems essential for an optimally fertile system." Nor did Cutler shrink from the commercial possibilities. "My dream," she said, "is that manufactured male essence, in creams, sprays or perfumes, can dramatically alter the well-being of women...
...most important things are hard to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what...
When he had to surrender the Finance Committee leadership after the Republicans took over the Senate in 1980, Long seemed to shrink a bit. He had modeled himself on the freewheeling style of Southern Senators who dominated the chamber when he first arrived there. But Long realized that the days of the back-room operators were over, and he does not think the change is all to the good. "There's been a great deal of fragmentation," he says. "While a lot of it looks like democracy, to a large extent it tends to go toward confusion and chaos." Long...
Welcome to Capitol Hill in the era of Gramm-Rudman, the half-desperate deficit-reduction measure passed last fall and described by one proponent as a "bad idea whose time has come." No one doubts that Gramm-Rudman's requirement to shrink the federal deficit each year by fixed amounts has changed the way Congress does business. What its members are unable to agree upon is whether the change is for the better...