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...life, Zappa had all but abandoned rock; the '60s icon who had posed sitting naked on a toilet for a poster called Phi Zappa Krappa was instead encouraging young audiences to register to vote and battling censorship of rock lyrics. After cancer was diagnosed in 1990, he worked 14 hours a day in his home studio in the Hollywood Hills, composing a musical called Thing-Fish and contemplating an opera. With Suzy Creamcheese finally grown up, Zappa dropped the entertainer's mask, revealing the face of the artist beneath. "My music," he said, "makes the mind think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Duke of Prunes: Frank Zappa (1940-1993) | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

Nestled between a flowery wedding cake and a Dick Tracy cake is an item most people look forward to only after eating too much cake and perhaps having a few too many drinks--a toilet. And even more titillating are a pair of scantily-clad breasts which protrude perkily from a layer cake on the top shelf...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Titillating Sweets | 12/11/1993 | See Source »

...responsibility is to "just help the kids." After all, who else is going to be there at one in the morning when you realize you've locked your chem notes in the dining hall? And although Bob isn't above threatening residents with a whole year without any toilet paper, Serena L. Davila '95 confides that Bob is really "the security guard with the teddy bear heart...

Author: By Sonna Moon, | Title: Hobnobbing with Bob | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...machines, no raw materials to process. Harvests rot in the fields for want of distribution. We see no cars and few buses on the broad boulevards; people travel by bicycle, horse and buggy, or crammed aboard the occasional flatbed truck. There are swizzle sticks but no soap; no toilet paper, no plain paper either. By day a pall of smoke hangs over the city: the government, desperate to limit the daily 12- hour blackouts of summer, spent some of its precious cash on cheap, dirty oil to fire the electric plants. But nights are still dark and silent; only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba Alone | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...candor may stem from desperation. There are chronic food shortages (except in tourist hotels) and a virtual absence of such necessities as toilet paper and toothpaste. The capital's cityscape is bleak. "Havana is absolutely empty at night. There are no cars, no lights and no people on the streets, except for prostitutes," McGeary says. Yet most Cubans refuse to lose hope. Their vitality is what adds so much intrigue to the unfolding saga of the western hemisphere's last remaining Communist outpost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Dec. 6, 1993 | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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