Word: cravated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WORST TIE. Ronald Reagan's top-half-red, bottom-half-blue cravat...
...Anglican minister. At one of the A.N.C.'s modest houses scattered throughout the Zambian capital of Lusaka, Tambo discussed his group's aims and methods with TIME Senior Editor George M. Taber and Correspondents Bruce Nelan and James Wilde. Dressed nattily in a beige safari suit with a paisley cravat tucked around his neck, the A.N.C. president tugged thoughtfully on wispy chin whiskers as he spoke. Excerpts...
...performance is scripted (very scripted, actually). It is also rehearsed (very rehearsed, actually), down to the last flamboyant gesture. He appears in an up-turned collar, flowing pink cravat and a suit of shimmering green. His hair is a delicate tint of mauve and he holds theatrical court from a cluster of antique-looking furniture. Subjects covered range from the excesses of Eva Peron to the finer, eccentric points of domestic science ("never sweep the place where you live, because after the first four years the dust doesn't get any worse...
...Have you noticed," asked Ahmed Karabegovic, secretary-general of the organizing committee for the Sarajevo Games, "that all of the stores in the city still have the Olympic emblem in the windows and that many men wear this Olympic tie?" He thrust forward a cravat with a snowflake and five rings woven into its design. "It is a small thing, but it is significant. Before, our city was known as a town of ashes, the place where a war began. Now it is a town of the Olympics and of friendship; much has changed...
...tough. What's a guy to do when the Smithsonian asks for a donation of his trademark white shirt and red tie for its permanent collection in Washington, D.C.? "I was a little hesitant at first," says Dangerfield. "I only have two ties." The $5 cravat-identical to the one he wore for his first television appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, 15 years ago-is a veteran of 65 Tonight show appearances. The shirt is an $85 white voile Beck & Sobel number (18-in. collar, 33½-m. sleeve). Shrugs Rodney: "They'll probably use the shirt...