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Other department stores, including Nieman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and the Coop, are still in the midst of winter clearance sales. But few of these stores get completely caught up in Presidents' Day fever. Saks Fifth Avenue, for instance, would never resort to gimmicks like dressing up salesmen in colonial costume to honor the nation's first president. Fashion Director Doris Yafste says she feels such actions might not be appropriate to the store's high fashion image. "We would never do that--it's so unsophisticated," she says...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: Square Sales | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

Being one of the world's only surviving Discologians, I have decided to write a book about my passion, something of a historical novel--a North and South of music, a Saturday Night Fever of books. I had the vision for the book last week when I came home to the newest Rolling Stone. I flipped through it until I came to the sixth page. Then joyous news set my heart thumping: The Bee Gees are reuniting...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: TALKING MUSIC: | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

Less than three years later, the music world proclaimed disco dead. The witch-hunts was led, if not incited, by Dr. Johnny Fever on the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati. Soon after the comedy aired in 1979, Fever began slamming disco, and by 1981 he was openly saying, "Disco is hell...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: TALKING MUSIC: | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

...countless trips through the African bush, Missionaries Doug and Evelyn Knapp have, between them, survived hepatitis, malaria, typhoid fever, other tropical maladies and even an encounter with spear-wielding assailants. Their trials have not been in vain. In the past decade, a revival led by the Knapps in Tanzania has resulted in the baptism of 40,212 converts, 14,409 of them in the past year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestantism's Foreign Legion | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...hair stylist does not win them all. One of his best customers over these years has been Pat Buchanan, the White House's remorseless partisan. When Milt felt that the presidential fever was building in Buchanan, he gave him his best dark-horse trim, which is a cut that is short all over, even on the sides and top, and starkly etched at the edges. But such artistry was not enough. Buchanan withdrew from the fray and has even decided to quit his White House post. Milt shrugs, "He's still got a cutting edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Tips from a Tonsorial Tout | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

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