Word: unbuttoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yale Review and author of the libretto for Emmeline, a new opera by Tobias Picker that opens next week at Lincoln Center), recounts a disturbing examination for cancer of the male breast: "Mammography's on the basement floor./ The nurse has an executioner's gentle eyes./ I start to unbutton my shirt. She shuts the door." The diagnosis: no malignancy, but an identity-warping excess of the female hormone estrogen. "The end of life as I've known it, that is to say--/ Testosterone sported like a power...
That may be an "elegant, wearable" suit Claudia Schiffer is wearing on your cover, but it's still the old, sexually titillating, tumbling blond locks and hand-poised-to-unbutton, sex-kitten look. Our society overemphasizes sex as a value...