Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Austrian border--but how near? Soldiers marched by, dogs barked, flares lit the night. Then a voice cried out, in Hungarian, the words paralyzing him with fear: "Who is there?" Even 40 years later, as he laughs at the memory, his eyes harden; he shifts his neck under his collar. Had the smuggler betrayed him? "We thought, 'Shit, this is it.'" The man shouted again. Now at the limits of his courage, the boy finally answered: "Where are we?" "Austria," came the reply. The relief poured cool as the rain. Andras Grof, a name he would later Americanize to Andrew...
...Frank Wildhorn just may be Broadway's most happy fella. A virtual unknown on the Great White Way nine months ago, he is the composer of two musicals, Jekyll & Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel, which have survived mostly scathing reviews to become box-office successes. A self-described "blue-collar professional songwriter" who has supplied material for the likes of Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston, he now has enough theater projects to keep him busy into the next millennium, and maybe the one after that. His favorite star, Linda Eder, is also his live-in companion--and next May will...
...champion its own idea. That support is likely to help overcome the claim that payroll-tax meddling imperils the Social Security system it funds. Now it's a race to see who gets the credit. As Lott told TIME, "You want to do something that would affect the blue-collar American? Buddy, this...
DIED. GIOVANNI ALBERTO AGNELLI, 33, great-grandson of the founder of the Fiat empire and heir apparent at the corporation; of intestinal cancer; in Turin. Company legend had the dashing but unpretentious Agnelli working as a lathe operator to savor blue-collar life. He had been expected to succeed Cesare Romiti (who took over as chairman from Agnelli's famous uncle Gianni...
...said the funniest photo you could find of New York City's November fashion shows was one of designer Bill Blass with his collar popping out, a pant leg looking as if it had a cyclist's clip, and a tie that stopped mid-chest [PEOPLE, Nov. 17]. What Blass needs is to use suspenders to hold his pants up, instead of a belt. Not only will his pants hang correctly, with a slight break at the instep, but his pectoral muscles will improve because he'll change his posture and no longer rest his belly against a belt. ROBERT...