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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government's support? The Nixon-Kissinger sideshow has achieved its aim--camaraderie with China and her people, cultural and scientific exchanges, and the opportunity to arm her to threaten the Soviet Union. A significant gain, perhaps, and cheap at the price of watching as many as three million people dye. Who wouldn't want to forget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joi Bangla | 2/11/1982 | See Source »

...much as Montedison and the rest of the chemical industry lost. Prato has 15,000 "factories," of which 13,000 employ ten people or fewer. The yellow stucco houses present strange sights: family wash hanging out of the upstairs windows, while lower floors are filled with spindles, looms and dye vats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Land of Woe and Wonder | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...until her death. Gladys did not let the boy play out of her sight until he was 15 and still walked him to school in ninth grade. At 16, Elvis transformed his paralyzing shyness into a bizarre statement: greased locks, pegged pants, mascara and eye shadow. Later he would dye his dirty-blond hair black, imitating a hoody Tony Curtis in the 1949 Brooklyn gang movie City Across the River. When Gladys died of a heart attack in 1958, the King of Rock 'n' Roll was still on apron strings. He demanded that her casket be opened. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Search of Pelvis Redux | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...Seven tiny tubes were also attached to the star's face, and when the fake nose went bang, Westmore, who was on the other end of the tubes, began pumping out Hershey's Type O. (In color films the newest recipe for blood is Karo syrup, food dye Red No. 33 and food dye Yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wizards of Goo and Gadgetry | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...piece in the show, Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas, 1978, has an almost majestic aura of open declamation. More delicate and complex in feeling is Howardena Pindell's large, irregular patch of canvas, covered with a silvery-pink crust of paint, sequins, confetti and dye, in whose nacreous surface also appears a slow twinkling of glitter. Entitled December 31, 1980: Brazil: Feast Day lemanjá, it refers to the goddess of salt water in the Brazilian macumba cult, whose votaries send out little silver-painted boats laden with flowers, perfumed soap and mirrors as offerings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Going Back to Africa | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

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