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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...casual and easygoing." At some of the fancier coed clubs, the appeal is strongly sexual, and less serious members spend more time cruising poolside or matching sweatbands with leg warmers than they do working out. The laid-back atmosphere of the clubs and the sheer physicality of sleek, scantily clad bodies in close proximity make meetings less artificial. "At the club, you can start a conversation naturally," says Art Kratkiewicz, 26, a Houston banker and member of the Texas Club. "It's not like going up to someone in a bar and asking them what sign they are." Notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Make Way for the New Spartans | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...that moment, a shot rang out, then two more. The reporters rushed to the windows in the plane's first-class compartment and saw Aquino lying face down on the pavement, a gaping hole in the back of his head. The khaki-clad guards who had taken him from the plane were nowhere to be seen, and the area was swarming with blue-uniformed AVSECOM troops. Next to a van, two of the troopers looked on as a third pumped at least eight bullets into the body of a man dressed in a blue Philippine Airlines maintenance worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: An Uncertain New Era | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...boys and girls have brutally unromantic relationships. On a sunny day, they gather on the beach. The guys display their masculinity by exploiting the surf with their surfboards, while their passive chicks annoint their scantly clad physiques with suntan lotion and watch their mates. At night, they either roam the streets in search of action, or they party wildly at someone's house. Unlike Frankie, Annette and their chums who would sit around a campfire and sing sweetly, these teenagers enjoy themselves by drinking, getting high and having...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When Fall Comes | 8/16/1983 | See Source »

...client's associates to an elegant restaurant ($110 a person) where, seated on cushions on a tatami-covered floor, they dined on a twelve-course meal that included clear soup, sashimi and tempura. That contrasted with the group's next stop, a Western-style nightspot, where Cardin-clad hostesses poured liberal amounts of whisky and brandy. Cost for the after-dinner stop, which continued until well after 11 p.m., was $360. "I don't like entertaining," says Nohmura, "but it has become an institution. If you persist in being a reformer, you would go to pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hard Day's Night | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...which Meg Leake as the panicking Amy does a magnificent job of spewing out the quickly paced lyrics without jumbling them up. Her frazzled acting seems extremely comic beside her calm understanding lover with whom she has lived for the past seven years. The rest of the ensemble clad in black choir robes and singing steady choral refrains rounds off an exquisite number...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Semisweet Sampling | 7/12/1983 | See Source »

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