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Social Media Influencer Bretman Rock is the First Openly Gay Male Model to Take it All Off on the Cover of Playboy Magazine
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(Blog)
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... founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, magazine publisher and glorified pimp, Playboy was considered a progressive pornographic publication, at that time, for defyed the 1950s anti-obscenity laws. Playboy’s first ...
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Created on 07 October 2021
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The Last Starlet: An Interview with 1950's Bad Girl of the Silver Screen, Mamie Van Dore
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(Movies)
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Photo: photofest
Discovered by Howard Hughes at 18 and poised to become Universal Studios’ answer to Marilyn Monroe, Mamie Van Doren made a name for herself in the ’50s playing big screen bad girls. ...
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Created on 08 September 2021
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Black Canary Spinoff in the Pipeline with Jurnee Smollett Reprising Role in the DC Films Sequel. Misha Green of Lovecraft Country Set to Write
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(Movies)
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... created critically acclaimed, but short-lived HBO show Lovecraft Country. The sci-fi show set in the segregated,1950s American South, also featured Smollett as Letitia Lewis, who's on a journey in search ...
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Created on 23 August 2021
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New Biography of Warhol Superstar, Nico, Explains It All: BUST Review
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(Books)
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... a teen she grew into a great beauty which proved to be Christa’s ticket out. In the mid 1950s, after being discovered by an agent for a large German department store, Christa began runway modeling at the ...
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Created on 10 August 2021
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What Exactly Is The Return of Saturn?
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(Living)
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... in your mid to late 50s (this is the time one starts to plan for retirement), and the third one is in your 80s (this is a reflective transit). Being that Saturn is a karmic planet, we learn lessons and ...
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Created on 04 June 2021
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You Can Enjoy the Kitschy Glamour of Tiki Cocktail Culture without the Gnarly Colonial Aftertaste
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(Eat Me)
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... being presented to them wasn’t genuine, but entirely made up.
The siren call of Tiki only became more seductive in the post-World War II era of the 1950s. Nostalgic for their days stationed in the South ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
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For Centuries, Some Asian Women Have Chosen to Live Communally, Preferring to Take Care Of Each Other Rather Than Rely On Men
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(Living)
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... of keeping an old woman and providing her with a funeral.”
These are just some of the reasons women in 1950s Singapore gave British anthropologist Marjorie Topley for living in zhaitang, or “vegetarian ...
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Created on 17 May 2021
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Rollerskating is Back! And Skate Queen Lola Star is Here to Share All Her Tips to Get You Started
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(Living)
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... trade card by the Roller Bureau, 1885
Roller rinks proliferated across the U.S. in the ’50s and ’60s to amuse the children of the post-war baby boom. And in the ’70s, disco music, club culture, and flashy ...
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Created on 05 May 2021
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A Fragmented Fisher- The Views That Feed Into the Memory of the Iconic Carrie Fisher
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(Movies)
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... write something like Wishful Drinking.
Via Star Wars press photos
Fisher was born into the spotlight. Her parents, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, were mega-stars in the 1950s and ‘60s. Before Eddie ...
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Created on 04 May 2021
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Therese Curatolo Isn't One to Read Between The Lines in Her Newest Single "Braille": BUST Intervi
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(Music)
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... I love all things retrospective. I grew up in an old-school household and we were always listening to oldies. I really cling to the 80s and everything about [the] 70s, 60s, 50s, and 40s. I just want to ...
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Created on 28 April 2021
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The Impossible Task of Keeping Up With The Kardashians' "Perfect" Beauty and Body Standard
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(Living)
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... 1950s, women have been hurting themselves physically and emotionally to measure up to the superficial expectations of their time for generations. Still, with the invention of photo-editing software and ...
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Created on 13 April 2021
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Rachel Brosnahan Dishes on Why Midge Maisel Isn’t a Feminist and How She Manages Acting As an Introvert: Exclusive BUST Interview
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(TV)
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... the 30-year-old actor since her bright-eyed, quick-quipping, bawdy-joke-telling star turn as ’50s-housewife-turned-rising-comic Miriam “Midge” Maisel in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which will be returning ...
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Created on 07 April 2021
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Happy 87th Birthday, Jane Goodall! 5 Inspiring Life Lessons from The Trailblazing Primatologist and Anthropologist
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(Living)
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... began her work in primate research in the 1950s, the field was dominated by men. According to CBC, primatology now has one of the highest proportions of female to male scientists of any scientific field. ...
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Created on 31 March 2021
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Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
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(Living)
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... in every lady mag of the day featuring women mired in marital distress because of their vaginas. In the 1950s, Lysol’s riveting ad copy ran right alongside Pyrex cookware promotions and recipes for jellied ...
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Created on 25 March 2021
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In The "My Salinger Year" Movie, Margaret Qualley's Joanna Rakoff is a Secondary Character in Her Own Sto
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(Movies)
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... are built on—as Rakoff’s character (played by a wide-eyed Margaret Qualley) says—“the nostalgia factor.” Joanna is far from her riot grrrl and slacker contemporaries; she inhabits a buttoned-up, 90s-meets-50s ...
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Created on 09 March 2021
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5 great female-focused French films to watch tout suite!
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(Movies)
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... shaped the film movement of the 1950s and ‘60s. Cléo de 5 à 7 is among her most classic, and one of the finest of La Nouvelle Vague, while still often overlooked in comparison to Godard’s Breathless and ...
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Created on 08 February 2021
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YA Author Tahereh Mafi On Why Style Matters To Her: A BUST Interview
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(Style)
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... inspiration? I love the tailored silhouettes of 1950s fashion, elegant old Dior, and Balenciaga. But then I love things like harnesses and strange belts—vinyl, plastic, PVC. I like using things in unconventional, ...
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Created on 13 November 2020
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How Much Do You Know About Anna May Wong? Take the BUST Pop Quiz!
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(Entertainment)
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Even though she made over 50 films and was widely recognized as the first Chinese-American movie star, many cinephiles knew nothing about Anna May Wong before Ryan Murphy celebrated her accomplishments ...
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Created on 06 November 2020
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Here's How Georgia's Stacey Abrams Saved America: Exclusive BUST Intervi
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(Feminism)
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... that was a struggle for him, because he was dyslexic.
So am I. That’s amazing.
When you couple untreated dyslexia with race, especially for a Black man in Mississippi in the 1950s—my dad found himself, ...
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Created on 05 November 2020
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This U.K. Artist Turns Found Objects Into Haute Art: BUST Interview
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(Arts)
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... Haversham’s mother was a ballet dancer—the artist has her own dance degree—and her father a photographer. “He worked for Vogue in the ’50s and ’60s, and introduced me to the photographs of Irving Penn ...
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Created on 30 October 2020
