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...drizzle for the three-block walk to the Bloomberg after party. The financial wire service had transformed the Costa Rican Embassy into a rough approximation of a hip, Los Angeles nightclub, with neon lights, lots of vodka and nubile ladies who silently walked around dressed in form-fitting airline stewardess costumes. One wall of the main room had a series of stairs that led to the ceiling, at the top of which Rick Davis, the campaign manager for John McCain, sat down to appraise the crowd. The Jonas Brothers, still looking lost and worried, showed up with their hulking bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Coolest D.C. Party Is Still Lame | 4/27/2008 | See Source »

...exactly the setting you would expect from the self-styled "rebel billionaire," the man who signed the Sex Pistols and the Stones to Virgin Records and then tried to bring that same swagger and cheek to the airline business at Virgin Atlantic. I ask him about his mother, a stewardess in the glamour days of the 1950s, and Branson launches into a well-worn tale about her blithely crossing the Atlantic on an airline whose planes didn't always cover the distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Branson's Flight Plan | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...ride with three girls intent on making “sexual” the English language’s most-used adjective, and proceeded on to the airport for a 6 a.m. flight. Next thing I know I’m being shaken awake by a beautiful stewardess named Michlain (yeah, I asked for the spelling...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IN LEHMAN'S TERMS: Hockey’s OT Tilt One For The Ages | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...plot is completely inconsequential: Striker chases his stewardess girlfriend onto a plane where most people, including the pilots get violently sick from eating bad fish. Striker has to overcome his fear of flying a plane, induced by a bad accident during the war, in which led to everyone’s death...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Classic Movie: Airplane! (1980) | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...draw a line somewhere, only to watch her fascination grow every time we passed the toy aisle at Target. Meanwhile, the competitive threat to Barbie did not go unnoticed by the makeover masters at Mattel. In the face of years of criticism, Nurse Barbie had turned into Doctor Barbie, Stewardess Barbie into Astronaut Barbie, with a host of multicultural friends. There was even Barbie for President 2004 in a trim red pantsuit with a Stars-and-Stripes scarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret of Barbie's Rivals | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

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