Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screen. This month MCA Records will release a Miami Vice album containing the show's theme music, several songs used in last season's shows, and three new numbers recorded for the coming season by Glenn Frey, Chaka Khan and Grandmaster Melle Mel. Meanwhile, the show's tropical-chic fashions (especially Don Johnson's typical ensemble of Italian sport coat, T shirt, white linen pants and slip-on shoes) have begun to catch on. "The show has taken Italian men's fashion and spread it to mass America," says Kal Ruttenstein, a senior vice president of Bloomingdale's. "Sales...
...Seasoning (1952), Daffy and Bugs are out to convince Elmer that the other is the legally blastable species. In the midst of an argument, Daffy encounters some pronoun trouble and tells Elmer, "I demand that you shoot me now!" Daffy turns to Bugs, sticks his tongue out in "nyah" fashion and promptly gets both barrels of Elmer's shotgun. When the smoke clears, Daffy's beak is arranged around his left ear, with the tongue still protruding. Daffy deftly pushes the tongue back into the beak (to a cork-popping sound effect), replaces the mandible, stalks over to Bugs...
...skiing as a full-fledged consumer sport. Profit margins, they say, are higher on clothing and accessories than on bicycles. When industry executives and dealers gathered in Las Vegas last October for their annual convention, the program kicked off not with a display of bikes but with a fashion show of cycling togs modeled by the Los Angeles Rams cheerleaders. Says Stephen Ready, executive director of the National Bicycle Dealers Association: "There is a renaissance in the bicycle industry that is being led by chic clothing...
...When a British Tory asked him about religious freedom in the U.S.S.R., Gorbachev testily replied, "You persecute entire communities . . . You govern your society. You leave us to govern ours." But on the whole he impressed his hosts as one Soviet official who could discuss touchy issues in a businesslike fashion...
...mature. This is particularly serious because so much of the debt is short-term; according to various estimates, about two-thirds of South Africa's total foreign debt of some $17 billion will mature within a year. In the past, the banks simply rolled these borrowings over, in the fashion of a charge account. The government's immediate response to the loan problem was to suspend trading on foreign exchange and stock markets in South Africa. Further emergency measures are expected shortly...