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...from the sea (aphros means foam; -dite rhymes with nightie). Worshiped for centuries by amorous couples coupling clamorously. She was Homer's Goddess of Pure and Heavenly Love, but we forget that Homer was blind. So, alas, are we. Turns out that Aphrodite (Venus to you Romans) was not Ms. Clean at all but the Goddess of Naughty Sex. It is she we can thank for most + of mankind's sexual problems, and chief among these is our obsession with her elusive elixir, the aphrodisiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Aphrodite Was No Lady | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Power Play Opps: Mn, 2-5; Ms...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 'Slow' Anderson Tricks Stunned Maine | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...weakest entry. It occasionally says something mildly amusing about the overprivileged children of New York & City's rich and famous. But Coppola and his co-writer, who happens to be his 17-year-old daughter Sofia, cannot settle on a tone for their overplotted yarn of a Junior Ms. Fixit, working simultaneously on the cases of a poor little rich boy and her parents' wavering marriage. The Coppola team tries satire and sentiment, but the story is not so much concluded as abandoned in a muddled rush. Give it a 5.5, and be grateful for the 10.0s on either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three's Company | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...letter to Healy, CTU Co-Chairs Michael H. Turk and Robert O. Edbrooke charged that Rickard's activity at 52-54 Fairmont was only a small part of a trend, "whereby Ms. Rickard...acquires and moves into a rent controlled property and decontrols it...and moves on to the next property...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Community Leaders Ask City to Suspend Zoning Board Member | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

...losers like Tess. Well, if Tess can't beat Katharine, she will become her. While Katharine recovers from a ski injury, Tess dresses in her boss's clothes, coifs herself in "serious hair," drops her voice one take-charge octave. Voila! The Staten Island missy is a Park Avenue Ms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Out of Five Ain't Bad | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

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