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...York life. At the top of the heap are "social X rays," rumpless women of a certain age who believe one cannot be too rich or too thin. Sixtyish men of this stratum are frequently accompanied by "lemon tarts," sleek, young blonds. Sherman McCoy is a decent well-bred sort, neither more nor less lustful than most confident 38-year-old males and particularly amusing when he gives facts and figures about how one can go broke in Manhattan on $1 million a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Haves and the Have-Mores THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 659 pages; $19.95 | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...Real Food For Real People" ads feature such wholesome types as Actress Cybill Shepherd and Actor James Garner, who was named the "last real man" in 1985 by PEOPLE magazine. Along with the glitz and macho, though, the industry emphasizes that cattle are now bred leaner and cuts of beef are trimmed of excess fat. Today, consumers are told, a 3-oz. serving of beef contains the same level of cholesterol as an equivalent amount of chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Real Food Stages a Comeback | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...Starring Lots of Actors," the opening credits of this Son of Kentucky Fried Movie announce. Also five directors (including Joe Dante and John Landis) and two TV-bred writers (Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland) itching to bring skitcom to the big screen. Some episodes offer social satire, such as one starring Griffin Dunne as an impish obstetrician who insists that his painted fist is a woman's newborn baby ("Wanna breast-feed him?"). But most find plenty of fun at show biz's expense. Movies: Amazon Women on the Moon, a parody of the already camp Zsa Zsa Gabor epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kentucky Fried Sequel | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...which shift to bring on and what to do . . ." His wife Elise is at his side and, sensing that the conversation is getting pretty silly, brings it to a close. "Isn't this getting terribly psychoanalytic?" she dryly interjects. Du Pont leans back, relieved. He is too well bred to say so, but if endless soul-searching is what it takes to be President, then he doesn't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Pete du Pont: A Blueblood With Bold Ideas | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

Last year BLM Range Conservationist Walter Jakubowski persuaded authorities at the Colorado State Prison complex in Canon City to let convicts break the horses. Most of the inmates are city bred, and none have had equine experience. In one year the convict-cowboy program has tamed more than 400 mustangs. Another 350 horses are corralled at the prison to be trained at the rate of about ten a day. Most are only halter broken, rather than readied for saddlework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Cowboys Are Convicts | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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