Category Archives: Beauty

30 TRIPLE A – 2013

March 23, 2024 – 2:27 am

Skinny girls were an anathema in America’s buxom 1950s. The overt sexuality of Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, and Brigitte Bardot created a male obsession for full-figured women and their curvaceous silhouettes cursed millions of patriotic men with a disdain for ingenues, method actresses, and slender showgirls throughout the Eisenhower years and the early 1960s promised […]

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East Berlin Immer Eis Cream

March 22, 2024 – 1:48 am

Back in 1989 one West German Mark bought a huge ice cream in East Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Two marks bought two ice creams. For good girls.

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The Now World

March 13, 2024 – 4:17 pm

Skateboarding never gets old.

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Girls Will Be Boys – 2010

February 22, 2024 – 3:49 am

“People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stone.” There are no glass houses in Afghanistan, but there are stonings for a wide variety of social offenses. Adultery is the most common, however woman are under constant threat for such trivial trespasses as leaving the house without a male family member or showing their face or attending […]

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The Shine of Donyale Luna

February 4, 2024 – 10:19 am

America’s white rule in 1964 stretched from coast to coast, however Malcolm X preached resistance up in Harlem and Martin Luther King and John Lewis led marches in Selma, Alabama. Change was blowing in the wind and Nancy White, the Harper’s Bazaar editor, transported an unknown black teenage with a African and Quechuan heritage from […]

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