Word: este
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burda Moden magazine, the world's largest fashion monthly (est. circ. 2.5 million), the year's trendiest color is without a doubt red. West Germany's rough equivalent of Vogue is about to become the first capitalist fashion journal to publish a Russian-language Soviet edition. Burda's initial 100,000- copy Soviet offering, with advertisements from such upscale firms as American Express, Cartier and Adidas, will hit Moscow newsstands on March 3. Says Manfred Made, director of the magazine's parent publishing house: "We are thinking in long terms. We believe that the Soviet market will be of immense...
...from day to day, from revolution to Yeti sighting to Est fest to Krishna love-in, and then one day you wake up and everyone's wearing tweed. Suddenly "sold out" just means "standing room only...
...this time, the field was largely the domain of NBC's Johnny Carson-David Letterman duo and ABC's Nightline. But Joan Rivers, who raucously departed as the Tonight show's permanent guest host last spring, has just launched her own syndicated talk show, telecast live at 11 p.m. EST and currently seen on 99 stations. Brenner's Nightlife, another syndicated entry, is now in its second month on 108 stations. ABC, meanwhile, has enlivened the post-Koppel hours with a pair of newcomers: The Dick Cavett Show on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Jimmy Breslin's People on Thursdays...
...Broadcasting Co., has done respectably in the ratings, but is well behind Carson, averaging a 4.9 rating in twelve prime urban markets, compared with Carson's 7.5. Brenner's numbers have been more disappointing, hovering around 2.4. Cavett and Breslin (whose shows are designed to air at midnight EST, but have been pushed later by several major , ABC affiliates to make room for Brenner's show) are lagging farther behind...
...CBGB, the proto-punk club on the Bowery, the Heads dressed in strictly Ivy spiff, like floorwalkers from Brooks Brothers. Byrne, eyes bulging, long neck turning like a periscope, sang like a carny geek who could not digest his chicken. Then there were the songs. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est/ Run, run, run, run away," Byrne would blurt, contriving to sound simultaneously like the murderer and his victim. Perfect new-wave icons, then: psychotic preppies. The pure products of America in the process of going blissfully crazy...