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...usually eat cheese, I don't eat butter on bread, I don't ever eat ice cream," the sophomore says. "Most of my girlfriends are the same way, so I don't feel like it's a weird thing...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...vehicle, and its engine is empire." Fanny: "Stuff!"--we're primed for a critique of capitalism, or for a semiotical analysis of post-war America. Yet the play's treatment of kitsch goes no farther than to make the point that '50s consumer products would look pretty weird to Victorian dames. For example, during their voyage through time the intrepid adventurers keep coming across egg-beaters. "Totem!" "Talisman!" "Taboo!" they conjecture, and develop the practice of spinning the beaters at one another. They seem to be voiding the egg-beaters of signifying power and revealing them as empty signs, which...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: On the Verge of Bursting the Corset Stays | 10/27/1994 | See Source »

...Veruca Salt isn't one of them. On the group's debut CD, American Thighs, singer-guitarist Nina Gordon, singer-guitarist Louise Post, bassist Steve Lack and drummer Jim Shapiro make music that is both disturbingly dysfunctional and thoroughly enjoyable. The band's lyrics are downbeat, fuzzy and weird while the tunes are upbeat and full of melodic guitar bravado. On the energetic Celebrate You, Post sings, "And in the dream/ You held a gun/ You killed off all who hurt you," accompanied by bright, jangling guitars. On All Hail Me, when Post cries, "I killed your baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Failed Mopers | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

...Real Men; they moaned as the hero unlaced their bodice and they felt his manhood against their snow-white thigh; but I wasn't like those men and felt that I might never enjoy a normal, twice-weekly sex life. I assumed I would grow up to be a weird old bachelor living in a house trailer littered with bean cans and dirty magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Good Old Monogamy That's Really Sexy | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...have sexual feelings," says Toby, a 32-year-old graduate student from Syracuse, New York, who, like 3% of adult Americans (according to the survey), has never had sex. "These findings may be liberating for a lot of people. They may say, 'Thank God, I'm not as weird as I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Now for the Truth About Americans and Sex | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

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