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Rather than tell long and drawn out stories about my first year roommate who loved to study topless, flexing and grunting, and who slept with the window open throughout winter because "it makes me feel like I'm back in Oregon," and who spent hours locked in the bathroom humming show tunes...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: No Respect For Practical Jokers | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

Alexander adds many new details to the saga, revealing, for example, that Sukhreet's job at a massage parlor included an extra $15 for going topless. But her gift is to make sense of what is already known: how a daughter came to turn on her devoted mother, why a venerable judge would jeopardize her reputation for a $19,000-a-year job for her child, and how the most famous Miss America of them all turned out to be anything but our ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bess Mess | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...scrape could be the last straw for Washington voters, whose loyalty has been sorely tested by a string of embarrassing episodes. At least twelve of his top aides have been convicted of corruption. Allegations of cocaine use began to dog Barry after he made a 1981 visit to a topless club. He claimed he was soliciting campaign contributions. Then came the rendezvous with Lewis, who subsequently pleaded guilty to drug-conspiracy charges and was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Lewis claimed Barry smoked crack with him, which Barry denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Set Me Up! | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...Particularly to the French, there is more than one archetypical image of Josephine Baker, who danced her way out of the hovels of East St. Louis to become the world's first black international star. From the Roaring Twenties came a Baker persona at once erotic and comic: prancing topless on a Paris music-hall stage, with eyes crossed as if to spoof her naked sensuality. Later came the vision of La Baker, a glamorous chanteuse gowned by Dior or Balenciaga and seemingly the essence of Gallic sophistication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Beauty | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...roommates. They live with you, they eat with you, they share your toilet. At all costs, be their friends. Note: This does not mean that you must indulge in their eccentricities. I, for one, never participated in my roommate's topless homework dances...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Suck the Marrow Out | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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