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"   Welcome to Flashback Friday, where we dig through our ridiculously cool archive of vintage Cosmos to separate what&amp;#039;s hilariously old from what still holds up. February 1987, you&amp;#039;re like a virgin.  There is probably no better poster child for the late &amp;#039;80s than Madonna, who at the time of this cover was a major star\u2014her first three albums had sold millions\u2014in the midst of a marriage to Sean Penn. Her interview with writer Chris Chase (who called her &amp;quot;tough but fascinating&amp;quot;) focuses on her love life, but only as a side note to the career success she&amp;#039;d built for herself, portraying Madonna as the take-charge badass we know her as today. For example, on her work ethic, she tells Cosmo:  &amp;quot;The musicians yell at me because when they take a meal break, I&amp;#039;m looking at my watch the whole time. &amp;#039;Okay, thirty minutes is up, get back in the room.&amp;#039; I hate taking breaks, people come back lethargic, the energy&amp;#039;s down. I mean, I bring my soy milk and my apple and my rice chips to the studio, and I just want to keep working straight through.&amp;quot;  I mean\u2026that quote is basically the word-equivalent of a power suit. And on that note! Let&amp;#039;s take a look back at more big-haired vintage finds: LOL to this rainbow-colored power suit special:  &amp;quot;How To Win the Confidence Game&amp;quot; is basically the &amp;#039;80s predecessor to Lean In:  Also\u2026this, which seems neither from the past nor the future, presented without further comment:  But as much fun as it is to peep the WTF fashion, there&amp;#039;s very little of it in this feature-heavy issue, which includes articles like &amp;quot;Working Girls&amp;#039; Budgets,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The Women of the White House Press Corps,&amp;quot; and a quiz on &amp;quot;How Would You Handle a Position of Authority?&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s also a question from a reader asking about the risk of contracting AIDS from oral sex, and a scary ad for Lifestyle condoms that says, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll do a lot for love, but I&amp;#039;m not ready to die for it.&amp;quot;  The cover might say that 1987 is about Madonna, but the inside pages do not shy away from the decade&amp;#039;s less dazzling struggles: the urgent need to gain power professionally, and the hushed, omnipresent sense of powerlessness in the bedroom.  See Flashback Friday with Mariah Carey here. Elisa is Cosmo&amp;#039;s social media editor. Follow her on Twitter @elisabenson. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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