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While I am not about to condemn Vogue readers for the forests of trees sacrificed for their advertisement bibles, I think it only reasonable that we give our environment and its inhabitants a second glance. Furs used for adornment of coat collars and skirt fringe are completely frivolous and unnecessary. In this era of Polartec and fleeces, there is absolutely no excuse for fur. It may be an urban jungle out there, but that zebra print is only shielding you from realizing your own delusions of chic...
...began, and all pleasure ended. Nick, the antihero of Benefits of Looking Ahead, foresees his future as a lonely bum--unless he builds a table in Shop. In Habit Patterns, Barbara sobs because she's a slob ("You make a pretty picture," the catty narrator says, "with your rumpled skirt, your spotted sweater and your hair in a tizzy"). John, in Narcotics: Pit of Despair, takes that first fatal drag on a joint and instantly becomes a heroin addict. What could be spookier? A Date with Your Family, in which five pod people purporting to be a suburban family...
...Kelly is a dead ringer for Kelly Martin. She is wearing a trendy patterned shirt and long flowy skirt. I would have never been able to talk to her in high school. But she smiles wide with her glimmering white teeth and perkily asks if we're student reporters...
...When the Marilyn phone rings, her skirt flies up, she sings I Wanna Be Loved by You and says lines from The Seven Year Itch...
...resources from the security of our defense to the security of our game shows. A TIME/CNN poll shows that only 32% of Americans think game shows are always run honestly, while 76% say it doesn't matter. Nevertheless, Greed had to change its name to Greed: the Series to skirt a rule that says shows can't change their rules once they're on the air. (They're lucky there's no game show Supreme Court.) On Twenty One, none of the handwritten questions are entered into a computer; when they are removed from the safe, they are accompanied...