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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dowling (H) d. Keen Butcher...

Author: By Benjamin R. Reder, | Title: Racquetmen Roll Over Princeton, 8-1 | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Harvard freshman Joe Dowling and Keen Butcher of Princeton were teammates at Choate last year. Butcher played number one. "Keen was much better than I was," said Dowling...

Author: By Benjamin R. Reder, | Title: Racquetmen Roll Over Princeton, 8-1 | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Gholam Ali Oveissi, 65, former commander of the Iranian army under the Shah, who became known as the Butcher of Tehran for a 1978 incident in which he ordered his troops to fire into a vast crowd of anti-Shah demonstrators, killing, by one count, more than 4,000 men, women and children; of a gunshot wound; in Paris. Oveissi was strolling along the fashionable Rue de Passy with his brother and a family friend when a lone gunman walked up behind the men and fired a 9-mm pistol at pointblank range. Both Oveissis died instantly; the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 20, 1984 | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

Yuppie meals are served on plain white plates, set down on straw place mats. The dining table, preferably butcher block, glass or marble, must never match the dining chairs. Yuppies angle for Queen Anne service as a wedding gift, then use their half of the service for everyday flatware after the divorce. As wedding presents, Yuppies give ski wax, an ounce of saffron or a specially written home-computer program, the Yuppie equivalent of a handmade quilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Here Come the Yuppies! | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...speculation and produced countless photos of Boy George, resplendent and unrepentant, winking or moue-ing in four-color splendor. His wardrobe is a tip-to-toe tutorial in the applied art of sartorial shock: coats that Scaramouche might have worn had Scaramouche been a color-blind butcher, a rabbi's black felt hat and unorthodox ties that seem to glow radioactively. His makeup is heavy: mascara (more under the eye than over), raspberry-colored lips, lots of foundation and cantilevered eyebrows. "I try to make my eyes look like Elizabeth Taylor's," he says. "And really, I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Picking the Pockets of Pop | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

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