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...center's closing will put extra pressure on Cambridge's only other shelter for the homeless. Mary A. Kelley, administrative assistant at Shelter, Inc., said yesterday. "There isn't anything we can do to compensate fur its closing," she added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Homeless Shelter | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

...week, apparently without tiring. Barnes insists that Nureyev can keep performing, albeit in increasingly less demanding roles, for 20 or 30 more years, though such endurance is rare among dancers. Certainly, the final color photo of Nureyev in this book seems emblematic of ambition. Dressed in a cocky fur cap and a shiny, blazing red raincoat, Nureyev is seen striding gracefully, and purposefully, forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Mar. 28, 1983 | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...fact, those Canadian ties date back to the city's founding, which was aided by the then Canadian-based, fur-trading Hudson Bay Company. Seeking a midway point on the Red River between St. Paul. Minn., and Winnipeg, the company settled on Grand Forks. The fork in the river at that point was used as the city's name when it was incorporated...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Biggest Show in Town | 3/25/1983 | See Source »

...slang for what a decade ago would have been called superfine. Grandmaster favors leathers, tip to toe, and has FLASH spelled out in lightning-bolt letters on the back of his jacket. Mr. Ness, of the Furious Five, favors metal studs, while his compatriot, Melle Mel, currently opts for fur. This is work wear, not street clothing, but Melle Mel knows what message they are putting across. "It gives you a more dominant, primitive look. We dress like this because in a lot of ways people expect us to. The whole principle in rapping is to be No. 1." Flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Chilling Out on Rap Flash | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...located across the street was once discovered roaming through the ground floor of the KGB building. In an incident that must have left Andropov red-faced, a distinguished group of guests who had come to confer with the KGB chief discovered on leaving his office that all their elegant fur hats had been stolen from the anteroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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