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Practicality, not chic, is a royal consideration. "You'd be amazed what one has to worry about," she says. "You've got to put your arm out to get some flowers, so you can't have something too revealing, and you can't have hems too short because when you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince and His Princess Arrive: Charles and Di | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

Evidently fearing the kind of daring U.S. air interception that the Achille Lauro hijackers encountered, Arafat made the 500-mile journey from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, to Amman by automobile. Seven top P.L.O. leaders accompanied him to the palace for the 2 1/2-hour meeting with Hussein. The ! next day Arafat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Maneuvering for Position | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

Cable executives insist that their series are different from network fare, in many cases more daring in language and subject matter. Usually that simply means a gratuitous glimpse of skin here, an expletive undeleted there. Brothers' treatment of homosexuality, for example, is a touch more explicit than ABC or CBS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Networking: Cable goes in for sitcoms | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

But aside from Garry Trudeau's daily cartoon lament over the fall of youthful idealism, that social daring has waned. Brown's eventual dethronement, though beyond the scope of Perry's book, was like the disillusionment with the Haight itself (California and America both turned again to Reagan), a disillusionment...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Where Have the Hippies Gone? | 10/26/1985 | See Source »

The unlucky parachutist was Andrew Carter Thornton II, 40, a failed Kentucky lawyer turned smuggler and adventurer. He died while trying out the newest and most daring method yet of smuggling cocaine from South America to the U.S. Airplanes have long been a favored way to haul drugs, but federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine's Skydiving Smugglers | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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