Word: diff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loved Mr. T, but I hate the makeup," says Gary Coleman, 15, who spent more than two hours dressing up as his oversized hero for the season premiere of the NBC series Diff'rent Strokes. The A-Team spends a week filming in the Drummond apartment, and little Arnold has an identity crisis when he learns that his new girlfriend is only using him to meet Mr. T. Arnold's effort to win back her attentions by imitating television's baddest dresser will never get him into the pages of Gentlemen's Quarterly, but it does...
...producers of Hill Street Blues), the new shows find their role models not in TV trailblazers but in the Lowest Common Dreck. I Dream of Jeannie inspired Just Our Luck (ABC); Mister Ed begat Mr. Smith (NBC); Bewitched gave birth to Jennifer Slept Here (NBC). Webster (ABC) is Diff'rent Strokes with a foster mother. The Rousters (NBC) is more dudes of Hazzard. Lottery$ (ABC) is The Millionaire after inflation. Two shows, Cutter to Houston (CBS) and Trauma Center (ABC), could be called The Mod Squad Goes to Med School. Manimal (NBC) is a menagerie of ripoffs...
...comedy and the towering inferno of the N.B.A. It was bound to happen. And so it does, early next month when the pair (mean height: 5 ft. 7 in.) team up, and down, for that milestone of broadcasting, the 100th episode of Coleman's NBC series, Diff'rent Strokes. Abdul-Jabbar, 35, guest-stars as a rigid substitute teacher against whom Coleman, 14, and the other students rebel. The plot, unfortunately, does not thicken...
...Europe is now classified as a bargain. Only two years ago, travelers needed bundles of money for Britain and most Continental cities. London is now only 6% more expensive than New York, while Rome is 17% cheaper and even Paris is 3% less costly than New York. Vive la différence...
Armani works hard on details to make this man-tailoring feminine, and has no patience with notions of unisex dressing ("I say, 'Vive la différence,'don't mix the sexes"). Indeed, his women's clothes are sensual without being overtly sexual, just as his men's wear maintains a certain roughed-up panache, whether it is meant to be dressy or sporty. He has also been warring against what he calls "suit slavery," pushing toward a time "when you make your own eclectic and very subjective definition of style. A suit...