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...feminine -- don't even think about feminist -- world. Thus a big chunk of the book focuses on brother Emilio's exploits as he fights in Italy during World War II, beds his way through postwar Greenwich Village, beats the odds in Hollywood, where he plays Tarzan and Sam Spade-style detectives in B movies, and eventually gains fame as a celebrity photographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sister Act | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...widening gap between Clinton's plan and his rhetoric. Ross Perot brought his traveling road show to a joint House and Senate panel and complained that Clinton's effort to call a new tax on Social Security benefits a spending cut was too sneaky by half. "Just call a spade a spade," said Perot. "It's not a savings, it's a tax." Similarly, the President denounced government waste last week, but he is not above rolling the pork barrel himself. He found $500 million for displaced defense workers during a recent trip to Southern California. His vow to create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Sell | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...want you to thank me/Just spank me..."). And for all your talk about how the sex you portray is all based on consent--well, the knife at your throat above doesn't look like consent, and, for that matter, neither do the ropes. So let's call a spade a spade: You're a fraud...

Author: By Thomas S. Hixson, | Title: An Open Letter to Madonna | 11/6/1992 | See Source »

...poster by the conservative magazine Peninsula advertising an event with the title "Spade Kicks" and a picture of a partially clothed Black woman further fanned the questions over free speech and sensitivity...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rudenstine Names Committee To 'Clarify' Issue of Free Speech | 10/31/1992 | See Source »

...short for disrespect) is nonformal; so is "deep doo-doo," slang for predicament. What is even more puzzling is Roget's failure to draw distinctions between the "nonformal" and the downright unacceptable. The fourth cites certain words as derogatory; the fifth does not. It lists such pejoratives as "spade," "nigger," "honky," "redskin," "gook" and "slant-eye" as nonformal and altogether ignores other, similar terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Satisfying Verbomania | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

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