Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record companies, it seems unfair. But to many music lovers, home taping of records is an inalienable right. Why buy a whole album, they ask, when a tape recorder enables them to copy only the songs they want from a friend's record...
...summer promises lissome beauties basking in appreciative male glances, it will also deliver the "fashion victims," as Women's Wear Daily calls those socialites who swallow the season's fashion feed regardless of what flatters them. "Some women who buy miniskirts surprise me," says Sheila Shahraies, a saleswoman at Ultimode, a pricey leather shop in Los Angeles. "They look terrible, but they want to be in fashion." There may be no quick solution for the thick-thighed, but the weak-kneed are seeking help. This year, in response to the short skirts, cosmetic surgeons report an increased interest in knee...
...thing, but a woman district attorney pleading her case in the courtroom is another," says Sylvia Percelay, a designer at Bullock's in California. A bit defensively, designers insist that strong-shouldered jackets will instill the image of serious intelligence, despite the drafty little skirts. Few women buy that. "Power shoulders, power lunches maybe, but not power flesh," says Linda Aronson, 28, a marketing executive on Wall Street who will save her skimpy skirts for weekends. Perennial Model Cheryl Tiegs, 39, has hiked her skirts six inches above the knee, but totes a precautionary cover-up. That is a lesson...
...would buy something if you'd take my Visa," a particularly stiff Ohioan said the other...
...Well buy it anyway," said Winifred, "and send me the money later...