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...beads ($5,000), bomber jackets made of python skins ($2,500), jumpsuits tailored from gold lame ($850). A body-conscious coterie of customers, the sexy avant-garde of fashion, are fanatic followers of Kamali. Raquel Welch is having Kamali design her costumes for her upcoming picture The Swindle, and Disco Goddess Donna Summer wore Kamali on her last tour. Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross are regular customers in Kamali's Beverly Hills Neiman-Marcus boutique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Hot-Selling Locker Room Look | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

California software company, sells a program called Softporn for $29.25. In the computer fantasy game, players seek to seduce three women, while avoiding hazards, such as getting killed by a bouncer in a disco. About 4,000 copies have been sold, says On-line Program Designer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Software for the Masses | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...rudiments of an education, but he is one of those, in line with Henry James' advice, on whom nothing is lost. Driving around Brewer, he registers what is playing at the four-theater movie complex (ALIEN MOONRAKER MAIN EVENT ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ); he listens to disco on the car radio and muses on the accomplishment of the Bee Gees, "white men who have done this wonderful thing of making themselves sound like black women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Crisis of Confidence RABBIT IS RICH by John Updike | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

SURPRISINGLY, the cinematography -- often neglected in mass market comedies--really stands out in So Fine. Bergman fills his movie with very precise and stark images, from the perfect whiteness of a steam bath to the glaring neon colors of a disco. Though inconcequential to the plot, the film's most brilliantly conceived scene is an imaginary advertisement for the So Fine blue jeans, in which set, graphics, color, music and choreography all combine to create a powerful image which far outclasses anything currently shown...

Author: By David J. Waldstein, | Title: More Than Just T & A | 10/1/1981 | See Source »

Moments of solitude and tranquility are possible despite the noise of the city: A frail urcnin stands outside a music shop situated on a posh street corner. She looks in the open-air store and gazes solemnly at the disco posters that cover the back wall, her eyes moving from one to another, surveying all their details. But the music playing in the shop is not disco; it is the sad and beautiful voice of a woman singing a classical Indian ballad. The young girl stares blankly for more than 15 minutes. She slowly lowers her head and walks back...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: East And West The Search For Eternal India | 9/18/1981 | See Source »

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