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...Strippers with hearts of gold, like Urbana Sprawl, who compares her profession to wing walking: "You're fine, long as you don't look down." And Monique Jr., who assures a nervous dancer, "It's a slumber party, hon. That's how come we're in our nighties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Rules | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...star shared a bed, with him. "I was on one side of the bed, and he was on the other," he told KNBC-TV. "It was a big bed." In his TV interview with Oprah Winfrey last February, when asked what he missed in his own childhood, Jackson said, "Slumber parties." He had them with the 13-year-old who made the allegations; indeed, Jackson traveled to Monte Carlo and Walt Disney World with that boy, his half-sister and his mother and, according to the complaint, slept with the boy. Reports indicate that the boy told his therapist that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson: Who's Bad? | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

Maybe Jackson is, emotionally, a preteen, getting his wish of an intimate slumber party. His behavior onstage suggests as much: the infamous crotch- grabbing seems as spontaneous as an infant investigating itself. But he is also an adult, 35 this week, and any boy's mother might foresee problems of propriety in letting a man bunk with her boy. Then again, the rich are different, and these are rich, nearly famous people. The mother's second husband is a rental-car magnate. The father is co-author of the script for one of the summer's sillier comedies, and supposedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson: Who's Bad? | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

...been dumped by her husband and bears a grudge. Hannah (Helen Slater) is married to Natalie's ex-husband, and the two compare notes about the stinker. "If you can love him, love him," says the ex. "But don't lose you. How's your loft?" If the slumber-party bonhomie (bonfemmie?) seems precious and fake, well, was The Big Chill really any better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hot-Tub Big Chill | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...democracy. In the 19th century, philosophers constantly argued and debated what the rights and ideals of democracy might be. John Stuart Mill, a passionate libertarian, was convinced that visions of freedom and happiness must be constantly discussed, altered and changed as societies change, lest they fall into "the deep slumber of a decided opinion." In our time, the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin has pointed out, "Men do not live < only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo's No Star Line-Up | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

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