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...tugs at her champagne-colored, pixie-style wig and smoothes the fabric of her hot-pink shift. Mrs. Diane Haley is standing in the kitchen of her tropical green bungalow in Clearwater, Fla., surrounded by prizes: brown vinyl reclining chairs, rattan porch furniture, a turquoise side-by-side refrigerator-freezer, a hairy purple stuffed dog, a pair of TV sets-stacked one atop the other-two imitation art nouveau lamps. An avocado-colored Ford Maverick Grabber parked in the driveway and the gold-patterned floor in the sun porch were won in contests. Piled in a hallway is some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Contest Winner's Road to Shoppertunity' | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...stockbroker, while Gayle designs and produces shower curtains; this year she hopes to sell $75,000 worth. They paid $80,000 last year for their five-bedroom colonial house in Sherborn, Mass, and recently filled up the place with everything from expensive wicker furniture to a large freezer. They have bought a country-club membership ($2,000 a year), two cars, two TVs and a long list of high-priced appliances. Says Gayle: "All I lack is a Cuisinart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America's New Elite | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...heterosexuals. Marketed under such trade names as Bullet, Crypt and Locker Room, isobutyl nitrite is sold openly in some record stores, boutiques and pornographic bookstores. Poppers sell for $4 to $6 for about half an ounce, enough for up to 15 sniffs. According to Pacific Western Chairman W. Jay Freezer, retail sales totaled some $20 million last year; he forecasts a 15% to 20% increase this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rushing to a New High | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...prevailing sense of horror is perhaps best described by the apocryphal tale of a freezer in Amin's house that contains the heads of his most distinguished victims, including the former Chief Justice; from time to time, the story goes, Amin walks over to the freezer to lecture his frozen audience about the evils of their ways. A former Amin aide who escaped to Kenya last year described Ugandan life to TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week: "You are walking, and any creature making a step on the dry grass behind you might be an Amin man. Whenever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Amin:The Wild Man of Africa | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...Trudeau's eating habits are not the signs of an eccentric cartoonist, but merely the eating habits of an un married college student. In my own apartment here at Cal State Fullerton you will find 13 empty bottles of Dr Pepper, six Swanson TV dinners, and in the freezer an open can of orange juice concentrate with a spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 1, 1976 | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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