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...stage lights come on, revealing not an adolescent, but a grown man probably in his 20s--a perfectly clean-cut figure that, with a coat and tie, could pass for a young executive--who has issued the guttural cry. To one side of him is a elegant-looking woman, with flowing blonde hair. She wears a sparkling evening gown and white tennis shoes, bouncing up and down to the pounding beat. To the other side of the man is another woman who is banging away on a keyboard. Her red miniskirt and beehive hairdoo stand out. At the back...

Author: By Michael J. Abrameichz, | Title: Bombs Away | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...that new sewing machine/ Secondhand clothes, I'm wearing secondhand clothes/ I sure hope Ed Meese sews." Among those cheering in the audience was Husband Ronald Reagan, 71, who laughed harder than anyone else, it seemed, when his wife accompanied the lines "Even my trench coat with fur collar/ Ronnie bought for ten cents on the dollar/ The china is the only thing that's new" by smashing a replica of a White House china plate on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 12, 1982 | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...hand. The layering of fabrics by pattern, texture and color so that clothing takes on for a second the quiet shimmer of a 17th century Japanese print. Surprising combinations of garments-leather pants as part of a suit, a long jacket over foreshortened slacks, a vest worn over a coat-that scramble clichés and conventions into a new and effortless redefinition of style. A functional celebration of fabric. A reshaping of traditional geometry with witty contours, sudden symmetries and startling vectors. A new sort of freedom in clothes. An ease, the Armani ease. And that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giorgio Armani: Suiting Up For Easy Street | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...Saturday, I arrived at the rink, and outside the main entrance, a girl in a blue coat (I still can't figure that out) was hawking her wares, which turned out to be information sheets on pre-arranged charter fights to Providence for the NCAA semi-finals and finals the following weekend. In big letters at the top they said. "HURRY--FILLING FAST...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Tired of Seeing Red | 3/24/1982 | See Source »

...stories were fueled by a series of scandals that have erupted in Moscow involving extortion and illicitly obtained diamonds. One centered on Boris Buriatov, a sometime singer known as Boris the Gypsy, who reportedly made himself conspicuous among the drably dressed denizens of Moscow by wearing a long sable coat, mink tie and diamond neckpin. He was arrested earlier this year and is rumored to have been involved in a multimillion-dollar diamond theft ring. When Boris was questioned by police about the large cache of diamonds discovered in his possession, :the name of a close friend is said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Pecking Order | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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