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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even (gasp!) commuting to their office, looked like first-class cruise passengers who had just unpacked for a walk around the deck. The look was liberating for some; for others, it resembled the prize exhibit in a dry cleaners' museum of horrors. Recalls Fred Pressman, president of Barney's New York, the forward-looking store that was Armani's first Stateside champion: "Manufacturers said I was trying to ruin the industry, promoting wrinkles. They didn't see the collection in terms of lifestyle, only as some kind of fashion statement, or misstatement. They couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giorgio Armani: Suiting Up For Easy Street | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...Northern California town of Orland, Donna Marley, 40, a widow, saw her December electric bill of $87 leap to $210 in a month. Neighbors Barney and Verna Cushman were shocked when their December bill of $360 surged to $624 in January. Nor have PG&E customers been the only ones hit. In San Diego, Verna Murray, a customer of San Diego Gas & Electric, thought that her $250 per month electricity payments were already excessive; her December bill exploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Shock | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...will lose one seat, the G.O.P.-dominated legislature passed a plan that put three Democratic incumbents into the same district. The G.O.P. has also profited from internecine warfare among the Democrats. In Massachusetts, which must shed one seat, the Democratic legislature pushed Republican Congresswoman Margaret Heckler and Democratic Congressman Barney Frank into the same district. The new seat contains about 70% of Heckler's old district, and the legislators stoutly refused to tack on the Democratic city of Framingham to bolster Frank's chances. The abrasive Frank evidently made a lot of enemies in the Massachusetts house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Zigzag Art of Politics | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...spend $10 million on average per film and must earn back nearly three times that much just to break even. Columbia's recent big moneymakers include Kramer vs. Kramer, The Blue Lagoon and Stir Crazy. Among the TV hits it distributes are Hart to Hart, Fantasy Island and Barney Miller. Says Roy Furman, a leading film industry analyst: "Under Price, Columbia has had a greater percentage of hits on less cost per picture than any other studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reel Thing | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...evolving Steve Gould, But not Joe Duarte, whose regime will be fooled. Adam Ulam, Ron Erhardt, and talkative Ed Reischauer Gaye Williams, the Space Shuttle and the diamond's Brad Bauer, Ed Lashman, Ann Waterflow and Liz Einaudi All will share in a great Christmas bounty. Don't forget Barney Frank, whatever his district, Hit-man Hearns, Sugar Ray and "freeze-framer" Petric, John Kenneth Galbraith, George Will and John Paul Two, Carl Yasztremski, Mark Ptashne and good Brother Blue, Fritz Mondale, Bobby Brustein, Elvis Costello, (the second will direct, the third play Othello), Michael Manley, Jodie Foster and creative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Trek | 12/18/1981 | See Source »

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