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...where every black soul gleams like Bakelite. In the Rodeo Drive boutiques, Iranian thugs and their bimbos are served champagne and caviar. Diana's brother (Bruce McGill) dresses himself and his apartment in Elvis memorabilia and drives a white Caddy bearing the legend THE KING LIVES. A shabby-genteel Brit (David Bowie) eases his gun into Ed's mouth--in front of Tiffany--and purrs, "I like you, Ed." A rancid TV producer (Paul Mazursky) asks his girlfriend (Kathryn Harrold) to play kinky games with him: "Oblige me. I'm gonna put this on video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Kingdom of Chic and Sleaze into the Night | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...three musicians in the crowd are Bass Player Mark O'Toole, Drummer Peter ("Fed") Gill, both 20, and Lead Guitarist Brian ("Nasher") Nash, 21. Johnson, who is front man as well as vocalist, comes on as the archetypal Brit pop poofter, waving a salmon-colored silk scarf as he wafts his way through Springsteen's Born to Run. Boomed a member of the rehearsal audience at Frankie's Saturday Night Live appearance two weeks ago: "Bruce is better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Frankie Say We Go Big Bang | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...Brit is now working on the "Cambridge History"; a book called "The History of Chinese Revolution"; and a third and final volume to his series, "Origins of the Cultural Revolution...

Author: By Roderick L. Macfarquhar, | Title: Journalist Turned Politician Turned Academic | 10/17/1984 | See Source »

History gives cigars their just place in civilization. Without his huge Jamaican cigars, Winston Churchill might not have led the Allies to victory in World War II. Wrote Churchill's fellow Brit, Rudyard Kipling, who, like Churchill, got his start in the wars in India: "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Smoke-Filled Rooms | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...narrowest in his three primary triumphs. In analyzing Mondale, the standards may have been a little more clear-cut: the networks and columnists, like the Mondale campaign, almost all emphasized Georgia's outcome as the yardstick of the former Vice President's performance. Said ABC Correspondent Brit Hume: "I wanted to be able to go on the air and report what the Mondale people thought it all meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Freights and Side Rails | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

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