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...have read your article on "Ponzi Payment." Found it interesting, but none too accurate. My hair is neither chestnut nor grey. It's gone. Have never worn lavender pajamas nor pink ribbons on my night shirt. Fur coat and overshoes on cold nights have been my limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...smiling for photographers as a group of Ford men approached. Someone shouted, "You're on Ford property. Get the hell off here!" Frankensteen started to obey, was struck from behind, turned around to fight. Four or five men closed in on him. He was knocked down and his coat pulled over his head. He got to his feet and grabbed one of his attackers by the ear. Others slugged him fore & aft. Cameramen snapped these early stages of the battle, then fled before their plates were seized. Said Frankensteen: "It was the worst licking I've ever taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs 1937: Labor: Strikes of the Week | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...efforts to halt imports. In deciding a fortnight ago to allow Chinese shipments to grow about 3% a year, the Reagan Administration gave Peking only half the amount that it had wanted, but further angered U.S. manufacturers nonetheless. Complains Mac Levy, executive director of the New York Coat and Suit Association: "The Administration hasn't done anything but hurt us all along the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rough Times in the Rag Trade | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

Suder harbors the dark fear that his difficulties are not physical but mental. He thinks he may be going crazy, just as his mother did one summer during his childhood. She started wearing high-top sneakers with her winter coat and went into training to run around the perimeter of Fayetteville, N.C. She also fawned over her son and told him: "You're not like your father. You're like me. You're just like your mother, just like your mother." Understandably, the memory haunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laugh track | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...denim," he says. In those early years, the shapes had their traditional roots as well. Miyake made a housecoat, called a tanzen, into a hooded wool coat and turned striped cloth used to lead horses on ceremonial occasions into a jersey. He made tucked cotton jumpsuits so intricate that he evoked origami, the ancient art of paper folding, and he turned a farmer's backpack into a knit jacket. Says he: "I was trying to peel away to the limit of fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Into the Soul of Fabric | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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