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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distaff side, the featured item for the spring is lots and lots and lots of wool coats, with trickily designed lapels and buttons solely designed solely to distinguish your coat from the thousands of cheaper models hanging in secondhand shops throughout the nation. The window pane checked Ferragomo coat is nice example, particularly when compared to the coccoon coat from Callaghan--an attempt, I guess, to evoke the fond memories of the Stay-Puff Marshmallow...

Author: By Charles M. Sneid, | Title: Fun, Sun and Dumb--This Spring's New Looks | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...like a firefly in a darkened room." That is also when a missile defense is most efficient: a single hit, by a laser beam, for instance, can destroy ten warheads at once. In post-boost and mid-course phases, the separated warheads are vastly more difficult to find and distinguish from decoys. On re-entry, the decoys burn up, and only the warheads continue to plunge through the atmosphere. But if there are, say, 5,000 left out of an original launch of 10,000, they could easily overwhelm any conceivable "terminal" defense. Besides, by then it might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploring the High-Tech Frontier | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...second act launches into a string of Murrayisms worthy of the Man-of-the-Year. From there, the plot meanders down to hell for a breakdancing scene, then back on high, first for lustful ode from Alexis, and then for a Last-Judgement-as-beauty-contest scene to distinguish the true sinners and get the whole cast in tights. The crowd is impressed enough to forget to take center stage...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Taking in a Show--Or Two | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

...Weterston imbues his performance of Schanberg with an appealing amount of moral ambivalence. Though Schanberg is truly fond of Pran, he is basically an arrogant American asshole journalist with a predilection for editorial moralizing. Schanberg is so narrow-mindedly hunting after a story that he cannot distinguish the larger picture from his dispatches, nor realize the consequences of his decision to stay. Anyone who has read Schanberg's column in the Times will find Waterston's interpretation convincing...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Cambodia Witness | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

...associate with anything bad. I guess," says Howard Hay of Harvard Cleaners in Philadelphia. But while Flay says he thinks the name safeguards the company apiarist all image of inferiority, he say he doesn't think it helps bring in more business because "Harvard doesn't really distinguish fashion care...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: They Call Themselves Harvard | 11/29/1984 | See Source »

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