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...wrote it herself. In describing the pain of being the ugly duckling among the beautiful people, and the struggle to transform herself from "doormat" to corporate mogul after her husband's suicide, Graham has mapped the heartache of being flawed and human and female. With the help of Gloria Steinem she came to see that the thousand small slights she endured were not singular to her but common to her gender. When she set out to write, "I didn't think about being honest or revealing," she says. "I did 250 interviews of classmates and family and associates and found...
...Harry Truman; b) Buddy Holly; c) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; d) Gloria Steinem; e) Diane Keaton; f) Julia Louis-Dreyfus...
Although they both flaunt a sense of personal style that hasn't changed much in the past two decades, Gloria Steinem and Bob Guccione tend to part ways on most other matters. So it comes as something of a surprise that the founders of Ms. and Penthouse magazines have both seen fit to attack The People vs. Larry Flynt, Milos Forman's critically praised film (Oliver Stone is a producer). Steinem and Guccione's beef--part of a growing backlash that may end up denying the film its expected handful of Oscar nominations--is that the movie, in its efforts...
...Steinem and other critics, notably Hanna Rosin in the New Republic, point out that the sex in Hustler is, in fact, often portrayed as bad and ugly and dirty, with women depicted in rape fantasies, smeared with excrement, likened literally to pieces of meat. Of course, a lot of Hustler's grosser features, like the infamous woman-in-a-meat-grinder cover (glimpsed briefly in the film), are supposed to be, in perhaps the loosest sense of the word yet devised, satiric. But as is the case with a lot of humor that allegedly pokes fun at demeaning racial stereotypes...
...package. This was the 11th political cover story in the past 18 months co-authored by Gibbs and Duffy (who, coincidentally, joined TIME on the same day in 1985). Other highlights of this week's issue include some familiar names and some unfamiliar juxtapositions: Jay Leno and Gloria Steinem offer the President some free advice; fallen campaign strategist Dick Morris urges Clinton to stick to the center in his second term; playwright Wendy Wasserstein has some light-hearted tips for the First Lady; Slate editor Michael Kinsley puts Clinton's victory in historical per-spective; and investigative reporter James Stewart...