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Despite all the exotic robots and the new productive atmosphere around auto plants, the Big Three carmakers still face an uncertain future. Their reputations for poor quality will be hard to live down, and the Japanese will continue to be fierce and efficient competitors (see box). Perhaps most important, auto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Uphill Battle | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Oshman's Chief Executive Alvin Lubetkin says he is convinced that there is still a market for the exotic fare that made A&F celebrated. The Dallas store has already stocked up with a $350 rhinoceros-shaped leather hassock, $300 pipes made from bruyère roots and $40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A & F Lives | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

Most of all, it is spectacle-dazzling sights, exotic sounds, strange but engrossing stories. A few members of this troupe gave a sampling of the art in 1978. Now a full company from the Peking Opera Theater is presenting the broad and impressive range of the repertory. Last week it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: China's Whirling Kaleidoscope | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

Less exciting, but no less exotic is a more static number, The Jade Bracelet.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: China's Whirling Kaleidoscope | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

In Martinique the author has an audience with one of the island's aging aristocrats, an enchantress whose piano playing attracts an exotic group of listeners: green, scarlet and lavender chameleons. Abandoned on a Connecticut country road, Capote meets a widow who shelters him in her cottage and shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Little Night Fiction | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

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