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...thought of paying $22.50 for a book your professor wrote 15 years ago and still requires for his course. "Cripes," you will mutter, imagining the seedy old codger shuffling into the store that evening and emptying the day's receipts into the pockets of his coffee-stained tweed blazer...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Thick and Thin | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

There was unanimous applause, however, when Peck resolved that "we have no more to do, ever, with the Argentines." Wearing a monogrammed E.R. on his dark blue blazer, he finally appealed, "I'm disappointed at the turnout and disappointed you don't have more to offer about our future. I want to get some punch into these islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Saved but Still Fearful | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...what most people see is someone who appears more than a little arrogant. His heard meticulously trimmed, he always looks neat. More often than not in a blazer, a tie, chinos or cords, and moccasins he is the consummate prep. To complete the arrange, he rarely wear sucks. Yes, I most certainly do wear socks," he says emphatically while chortling at the question. "When my feet get cold and when I'm is a business suit...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: 'Playing With the Big Boys' | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...here, I want you to see something," said Pate to P.G.A. Tour Commissioner Deane Beman, 43, leading him to the edge of the water hazard near the 18th green. Too late. Into four feet of water, said to be inhabited by a sleepy, well-fed alligator, went Beman, camel blazer, tassled loafers and all. Pate then cast Tournament Players Club course Architect Pete Dye, 56, in too. "Jerry made us both look like a pair of awkward storks," says Beman. "Then he makes the most perfect dive you've ever seen. Absolutely flawless form." All wet or not, Beman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 5, 1982 | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

Leather is expensive: a Lauren prairie skirt costs $1,000; a leather blazer from Yves St. Laurent also carries a $1,000 tag. But leather jackets with embroidered eagles, by Parisian Designer Claude Montana, priced at up to $2,400, sold out in two weeks last fall at Bloomingdale's in New York. Retailers report that the priciest items sell best. Alan Bilzerian, owner of two stores in Boston and Worcester, Mass., claims: "The customer wants one incredible piece. This will become a piece from the '80s, the way a Bauhaus or Corbusier was a piece from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Leather Turns Soft and Sexy | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

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