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...quiet for the next half-minute or so. Huddled on rooftops and in the doorways of nearby row houses, flak-jacketed police officers put their hands over their ears. Then there was an orange flash and a powerful explosion that sent wood, metal and a cloud of dust flying into the air. Said a resident of adjacent Pine Street: "The blast didn't just shake the windows, it shook our entire house...
...report this week's cover story on Rock Phenomenon Madonna, TIME Show Business Correspondent Denise Worrell joined the trash-flash star's concert tour for a week, traveling from Dallas to Houston to Austin to New Orleans. "I was surprised by her face," says Worrell. "It is beautiful and strange, very pure, and free of all indecision and self-doubt." Backstage before a concert, Madonna tried on a white leather vest and a miniskirt layered with fringe. Recalls Worrell: "Twirling before a mirror, fringe flying, she sang out, 'If I ever married a cowboy, this is what I'd wear...
...hear anything else, at this tick of the clock except brassy, trashy, junk-jingling, stage-stomping Madonna, who has been world famous for almost two months. Just now she is the hottest draw in show biz. Michael Jackson? History. Prince? The Peloponnesian Wars. Cyndi Lauper? Last week's flash, and besides, if you wanna be like Cyndi, you have to dye your hair orange and fuchsia, and your parents freak. No, Madonna is the full moon you see at this bend in the river, and never mind what is around the corner...
...ladies is Nancy Reagan, whose $22,500 hand-beaded Inaugural gown was a Galanos creation. Diana Ross chose deep purple Galanos glitter for the Academy Awards. For evening, Galanos likes a little Dynasty-style flash--and so do his customers. For daytime, he is tasteful to the point of fusty, although he uses colors more often seen in combination on the flags of developing nations: acid green, orange, black, purple. The great Galanos secret, the almost sensual connection between him and his clients, is the inside of the clothes. Seams are bound, linings finished, and zippers and buttonholes hand...
...paparazzo's flash ruptures privacy. A photographer's strobe can be softer: illusion backlit in short bursts. It is not glamour flashing in Stephanie's haunted blue-green eyes, though. Whatever she wears, however she holds herself, she seems to stare straight past the lens, resisting any easy truce...