Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...edged). You're holding it beside your leg so he can't see it. The enemy is smiling and chattering away about something. He thinks you 're his fool; he trusts you. You see the spot. It's a target between the second and third button on his shirt. As you calmly talk and smile, you move your left foot to the side to step across his right-side body length. A light pivot toward him with your right shoulder and the world turns upside down: you have sunk the knife to its hilt into...
Well, not quite. The Ellis cutters and sewers will be making use of new technology: a video-tape machine with a pause button. "When we get a good picture of Lady Di," Ellis says, "we can freeze it." Elk's reports that 200 of the copies have been ordered so far. "Every shop in England that has a royal window wants...
...them. In the Longford, ordinary Los Angeles water flows from the mouths of dolphin-shaped taps that are plated with 24-karat gold. Other homey touches: large foyers for art treasures, crystal chandeliers and private screening rooms-and owners will be able to summon, with the press of a button, pet walkers, masseuses, engineers and secretaries. The 31-story L'Evian devotes an entire floor to 21 apartments for maids. For those who want to get out of the house, there is an elegant private club, the Regency, just down the street...
...Fred Silverman saga unfolded at the corporate level last week, a play-within-a-play held the stage at NBC News. The theme was strikingly similar: Will he stay or will he go? The protagonist: boyish Tom Brokaw, 41, for five years the button-bright host of the Today show...
...Darrell Wiggins, 48, was every inch a button-down banker. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the senior vice president of Houston's Allied Bank of Texas (1980 assets: $1.3 billion) presided soberly and quietly over the bank's 15-man international division. But by night, the portly and bearded Wiggins moved onto a faster track, barhopping along Houston's nightclub circuit, where he showed affection to his favorite topless dancers with $100 tips...