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...Gorbachev's heavily armored black ZIL limousine, airlifted from Moscow, swung into view. Reagan, shedding his overcoat, stepped out into the raw morning and stood stiffly at the top of the steps, as if at attention. Quickly striding from his car, Gorbachev theatrically swept off his black fedora. Reagan came down and grasped the hand of his rival with a firm handshake seen around the world. As both men smiled broadly, the American President, 20 years older and four inches taller than his Kremlin opposite, gently steered his guest inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fencing at the Fireside Summit | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...wasted no time in setting a tone of can-do urgency. Shortly after assuming office, Gorbachev declared a crack-down on alcoholism. As if to underscore the contrast with his aged and often invisible predecessors, he traveled widely, exchanging his fedora for a hard hat to inspect factories and showing off his stylish First Lady Raisa abroad. Gorbachev also moved quickly to consolidate his personal power. His principal rival for the top job, Grigori Romanov, suffered the indignity of sudden retirement. After 28 years as Foreign Minister, Gromyko was kicked upstairs, to the largely ceremonial position of President. And last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four In The Spotlight: Mikhail Gorbachev | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Chino's terms of parole barred him from returning to the Playboys' territory, around the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Fedora Street in L.A.'s Rampart district, but he quickly reappeared at his old haunts anyway. He set about goading some of the younger homeboys to "put some work in" for the gang. That usually meant getting stoned, then driving a car through a rival gang's neighborhood while shooting out the window. Word got back to the parole officer that Chino was out causing trouble, and the police did a parole search of his house and found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A. Gangs Are Back | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

Selsby says. “Those just don’t look good on anyone.” For males, the worst fad “would have to be the lack of hats,” says self-proclaimed fashionista Selsby. You heard the man, don a fedora...

Author: By Michelle Cerulli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Proctor Scoped! Ten Years in the Yard, and Counting | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...made an image in Spain of a band of children playing on a street, a heavyset man in a suit and fedora walking through their midst and, in the background, a constellation of windows scattered across the wall of a building. It wasn't a picture about anything. It was a moment most of us would never notice, but in his eyes it became an enigma, so full of suspense, you could almost hear the click of a detonator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

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