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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spotted on campus during the recent Junior Parents' Weekend, were a plethora of preppy classics, from crewneck sweaters over jeans and corduroys to Brooks Brothers and J. Press sports jackets and rep ties. Sparking the classic mix: blouson or jean jackets, retro-looking ski sweaters, and the very occasional flash of miniskirt-bared legs. Adding their own ineffable brand of casual chic were a group of French students touring Harvard, wearing the born-again preppie garb which, ironically, is also the latest rage in Paris...

Author: By Lorna Koski, | Title: Studying the Classics | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...looking for more formal styles from the '40s and '50s, according to Crosby. "Contemporary designers keep reverting to the older styles--the '20s, '30s, and '40s," she says. Clothes from the '60s are less expensive and easier to come by, she says--"They're mod and not quite as classic...

Author: By Lucy I. Armstrong, | Title: When 'Old' Becomes 'New' | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...looks much older, does have a green card showing that he is in the U.S. legally. But his father Juan Moreno-Garcia, who was granted U.S. residency rights in 1981, was holding the card for safekeeping. As a result, father and son both became victims of a classic bureaucratic bungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Border Bungle: A boy mistakenly is deported | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...examination of creativity's demands and its essential place in the artist's life, she holds up the example of Virginia Woolf's classic A Room of One's Own, and rewrites it from the Black woman's perspective. What, she asks, were women to do who not only could have no room and no financial independence, but who could barely claim their bodies as their own' And what of women like her mother, who raised a large family with hardly a moment to themselves' They found a way, she responds...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Beyond Feminism | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

...This is a classic case where nobody wins," said Vaughn's defense attorney Willie J. Davis. "If there is a more tragic case, I've never seen...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain, | Title: Former B-Schooler Gets 10 to 20 Years For Choking Wife at Peabody Terrace | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

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