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...Living On screens and playing fields and in high-fashion ads, more men are turning up unshaven. Can stubble be the look of the '80s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Dec. 9, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Isaacson loves to make celebrities sweat, and they love to let him. He is among the best known of a bustling new breed: personal trainers who suddenly can be found in every major U.S. city where there is money and fat to burn. Trainers are to the narcissistic '80s what private fencing masters and dancing teachers were to an earlier time. These status symbols in sweat socks, always perfectly fit, fit perfectly. They signal affluence (private hour-long sessions at a studio or client's home run $50 to $150) without suggesting decadence. Los Angeles, a city that has always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Body Styler of the Rich and Famous | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...year-old incident still have the power to shock? Indeed it does, and Nelson DeMille, who served as a lieutenant in Viet Nam, knows exactly how to employ his surge within us"), but the military scenes have the gunmetal ring of authenticity. This is The Caine Mutiny of the '80s, a long, over-the-shoulder look at a time that grows larger as it recedes from sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: BODYWATCHING | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...annual revenue. It's had a staggering transformation from the obscure firm that Greenberg took command of in 1967 and took public two years later with just $13 million of annual profit--a figure that swelled to $11 billion by last year. While building AIG in the 1970s and '80s, Greenberg often was the only foreigner in sight in politically combustible countries like Romania, Iran, Vietnam and other parts of the Far East, and would draw a curious crowd just crossing the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down...But Not Out | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

...replied, "Well, not many 90-year-olds just came back from performing in Europe." Less than a year later, Hall was back on the road appearing in the concert halls of Belgium and the Netherlands with the Young@Heart Chorus, a 21-member Northampton, Mass., group in their 70s, 80s and 90s that performs rock-'n'-roll classics by such masters as the Clash, the Rolling Stones, Hendrix and Springsteen on a grueling touring schedule around the globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock on, Grandpa! | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

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