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...Opera costume ball, he was dressed in a toreador outfit of varying shades of gold lame. "That night," he recalls, "the huge cape I designed was completely lined with fresh red roses which I tossed, one by one, at my audience as I descended the grand staircase." Though the glitter of the gold fabric has dimmed a trifle, and Erte has just turned 90, both the costume and the celebrated designer were on hand at the opening of a retrospective at the Dyansen Gallery in Manhattan, one of four major Erté shows currently on view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Erte Irrepressible at 90 | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...inscribed with the names of 57,939 killed or missing in America's last war, are simple, elegant and dignified, everything the Viet Nam War was not. By the end of last week the adjacent ground was a fringe of private memorial icons: messages in ink and gold glitter, photographs, candles, tiny flags and hundreds of flowers. Virginian Larry Cox, one of four survivors from a 27-man platoon, found the black granite chilling. Still, he said, "it's a first step to remind America of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Homecoming at Last | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...seriously, as she did in The Rose; for can she turn the whole thing into a high-camp parody, as in her wonderful stage shows. The material is simply too bland to get hold of, Even Midler's trademarks, the peroxide hair and fluorescent clothes, don't glitter as they usually...

Author: By Jean CHRISTOPHE Castelli, | Title: Low-Level Wastes | 11/6/1982 | See Source »

...thick windowpanes flanking the barred door. This was not the Ritz in London, one of his favorite jet-set stops, nor his art-rilled office high above Manhattan's Park Avenue. John Zachary De Lorean's dream of soaring to industrial fame on the gull-winged glitter of his stainless-steel sports car had turned into a nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bottom Line... Busted | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...this is Bob ("Tell Erik Estrada I'll meet him out on the blacktop") Hope, 79, here to tell you about my new special next month on NBC: Bob Hope's Star-Studded Spoof of the New TV Season-G-Rated with Glamour, Glitter and Gags. And how about NBC these days? The peacock has been taking such a beating in the ratings recently that I've seen better-looking birds served by Frank Perdue. This is my 33rd year on NBC, and for my new special I've got all the hot stars, except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 20, 1982 | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

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