Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...district, are shops with curious names -- Octopus Army, Short Kiss, Good Day House -- that offer a variety of identities. There are button-down collars and plaid pants for the preppie look, floral prints and batiks for the Third World ethnic look, tennis and soccer equipment for the ultra-fit look. One store sells nothing but Batman gear for the Caped Crusader look...
...show-biz ladder had few missteps. He moved to Chicago and began honing a stand-up act in comedy clubs. "Even then he seemed to have something extra," says Art Gore, a friend from those days. "He had a rapport with the people; he could adjust his comedy to fit the audience in the club." In 1979 singer Nancy Wilson hired Hall to emcee her stage show in Chicago. When she arrived late, he had to improvise with the audience for 20 minutes. It went well, and Wilson hired him as her regular warm-up act. Hall soon moved...
Assembling this critical gallimaufry is the task of reporter-researcher Andrea Sachs. An attorney turned journalist who joined TIME in 1984, Sachs says her legal training "helps me to negotiate the little problems that come up." The hardest: squeezing opinions to fit into the highly compressed space. Not surprisingly, Sachs has found critics to be "the most opinionated and creative people you'd ever want to meet. They care so much about their stories that they are ready to go to war over the change of a comma...
...typical. This is a high school for gays, lesbians, cross- dressers and transsexuals. At other schools, their mere presence was often disruptive. Many of them were verbally abused by teachers and counselors, physically attacked by classmates, thrown out of their homes. Unsurprisingly, many dropped out. At Harvey Milk, they fit...
...Fenway Park in Boston in July 1987 but he had really gone away back in October 1986. His team, the Boston Red Sox, was one strike away from winning the World Series for the first time since World War I. Then a lot of stuff happened that isn't fit to print in a Boston-area, family newspaper, and Johnny Mac was gone...