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...Woman, a quarterly that will faithfully-and exhaustively-show a single dream girl. The sexy subject of One Woman's 96-page premier issue, to be on newsstands for $3.50 next week, is Morgan Fairchild, 33, best known as the bitchy bombshell on TV's Flamingo Road. Six photographers portray Fairchild in relatively modest poses and attire. In a variety of interviews, Fairchild is only slightly more revealing, disclosing that she likes older men and as a youth was a "dumpy little pudgy-faced kid, with white hair and big glasses." Talk about aging gracefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 17, 1983 | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

Much as shibusa informs the eye of the cutler or potter or flower arranger, it must have informed the eyes of the designers of the Flamingo. This record player plays the disc as it stands upright, and thus becomes a source not only of sound but also of sculptural beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Just So of the Swerve and Line | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...combination of cleverness, skill and shibusa, rather than originality, accounts for the excellence of Japanese design. Its continuity extends from the 17th century Katsura Imperial Villa, whose sparse, shoji-screened rooms influenced modern architecture, to the just completed Keio University library; from tatami mats to Sony's new Flamingo record players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Just So of the Swerve and Line | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...leggy, not-so-dumb blond up for a nude walk-on in a grossly expensive epic war film. Fairchild is working for scale ($195.80 a week) to break out of the blitz of vixen parts that Hollywood has offered since her bitchy role on television's Flamingo Road. "All they want you to do is run around in pants and a halter top," says the actress, who wears mostly that in Geniuses. "But it's theater," she argues, "and it's funny, and I like the play a lot, and that's the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Jan. 10, 1983 | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...premise: "In a world of ever-encroaching uncool, it has become harder and harder to distinguish the real thing." Salutes to Blondie and the B-52s don't seem quite right for full-fledged hipsters and flipsters. Neither does the image of skinny-tied dudes with Elvis' haircuts watching "Flamingo Road," one of the members of the all-time TV list...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Not Cool | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

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