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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVE A DATE, a dress, reservations at a romantic restaurant, and an invitation to an elegant ball to be held in the Yard. There's only one thing missing...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, | Title: Blackballed | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...that every mayor, museum director and chairman of the board in the Western world had simultaneously agreed that a Moore work was the only possible solution to the problem of how to relieve the hardness and social tension of new post-Bauhaus buildings with an organic metaphor, how to dress up a civic space without commemorating anything in particular. At the same time, people in the street found that his work spoke to them in a way that some dull tangle of official I beams could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sentinels of Nurture; Henry Moore: 1898-1986 | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...money amassed by a very violent mob. But Mike has other worries: "I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old ( religious maniacs looking for a fight, and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about." The fanatics are warring Irish Catholics and Protestants, a half-century's resentment festering between them. They spike their drinks with faith baiting and engage, Casablanca-style, in fierce simultaneous renditions of Ave Maria and The Sash. By midnight one pensioner will suffer a fatal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Liverpool After the Beatles | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...every day you meet a prince," said Cristina V. Coletta '87, co-organizer of the College's 350th celebration in October, who was also invited to tea. In preparation for the meeting she said she has bought a new dress and brushed up on her etiquette...

Author: By Gregory R. Schwartz, | Title: Only 49 Students Will Chat With Charles | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...watched through a peephole backstage and his tawny-haired wife sat in the front row, wearing an ornately crested Polo blazer, as models taxied along the runway to the strains of Sinatra's The Lady Is a Tramp. The critical favorite of the day: a navy blue cashmere evening dress ($998) that was far more clingy, streamlined and sensuous than any Lauren has dared before. Another hit: a paisley skirt in shimmering panne velvet ($698), a striking companion piece to a sedate wool jacket ($598). Said Lauren after the show: "It all came together. This is the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

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