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...Playboy did surrender to the eroto-chemical revolution: the siliconing of women?s breasts. No longer was the Playmate a triumph of good genes, a pretty smile and a light workout. Now when you looked at a Playmate you had to think of the plastic surgeon who made her that way. Bette Midler once made a joke about Bruce Springsteen in his 80s buff phase: ?Nice body, Bruce. Where?d you buy it?? Same goes for many of the Playmates of the past 20 years. The 50th Anniversary Playmate, Colleen Shannon, is a Pamela Anderson clone, a pneumatic cartoon drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Your Grandfather?s Playboy | 1/3/2004 | See Source »

...they seem as boyish as they did before the attack. While a DVD of Lord of the Rings plays on Beverly's laptop, Jenks laments that his PlayStation 2 console is on its way to Iraq just as he is being sent back to Germany. Both show visitors plastic cups that contain shrapnel fragments removed from their bodies. There is no bitterness or self-pity. Says Beverly: "You've always got to expect the worst, and I'm glad that's not what happened." Jenks is more frustrated about leaving Iraq so soon after arriving. "I didn't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait Of A Platoon | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...period since that non-meeting, though, something happened--something out of a postmodern fairy tale that finally caused Kevin to pay attention and set Stacey's life on a fresh course. Thanks to the plastic surgeons, personal trainers, hair stylists and wardrobe consultants of the hit ABC TV series Extreme Makeover, homely Stacey became a raving beauty. After $18,000 worth of liposuction procedures, brow and eye lifts, Botox injections and dental work, Stacey went home to Nebraska from Hollywood an astonishing 35 lbs. lighter and looking like a newly minted pop star. In no time, her troublesome boyfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The Makeover | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

Though kids and staffers all agreed Edwards needed a more “presidential” timepiece than his current plastic sports watch, they still think he is “a very sexy...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Primaries Approach, Students Stump in Nearby States | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...corner of Saddam's underground hiding place were a handful of q-tips. In another, a black plastic bag. An electric fan was installed in one wall next to a small ventilation shaft, which emerged above ground a few feet away from the entrance. It's hard to imagine the confines could provide its inhabitant with a feeling of security, much less power, or anything other than a sense of claustrophobia, especially when the Styrofoam block is lowered into the entrance way, then covered with a rubber mat, a cloth rug, and dirt-as it was when Special Operations Forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Saddam's Hideout | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

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