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The lights go down in Manhattan's deco dream palace, Radio City Music Hall, and Mr. Showmanship makes his entrance, flying across the huge stage in a cocoon of feathers, enough for a whole flock of purple ostriches. Did we hear someone say "Peter Pansy"? Go on and laugh. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberace: The Evangelist of Kitsch | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

In customary Moliere style, Scapine is a romantic farce which pokes fun at the middle class. Octavio (Jon Blackstone) and Leander (Gintaras Valiulis), two wealthy young men, want to marry women considered unsuitable by their stuffy parents, Argante (Donal Logue) and Geronte (Celia Wren). They enlist the help of the...

Author: By Ellen R. Pinchuk, | Title: (E)scapining | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

Nowadays there is a range of colors available for tuxes (like the sun- doused pastels in After Six's "Miami Vice" collection), as well as a scale of prices that rise from the bargain basement ($139 for a polyester- blend model made in Hungary) to $3,500 for a hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Tie Still Required | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

He has been, for ten years now, a cool hand at bringing up all manner of crawly things from just below the surface. Byrne and the Heads made music that examined some of the oddest, spookiest manifestations of modern emotional life, sang songs that turned grim tidings into deadpan jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Renaissance Man | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

His most famous invention drove millions to distraction and him to the bank. Now Erno Rubik is beyond cubic. His latest brain twister, unveiled last week in Budapest, consists of eight thin 2-in. plastic squares joined by a cunning latticework of plastic threads: "Fishing line pretty much," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 29, 1986 | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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