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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Children, especially girls, are stuck on stickers. That's why Lisa Frank Inc. is hot. Founded in 1979, the firm is a household name among the younger set for making Day-Glo stickers as well as notebooks, pencils and stationery. The company expects to sell 20 million items this year, including 3.5 million stickers, doubling last year's sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: The Queen Of Stickers | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...have buried the Vietnam-era mentality, but we have resurrected its style: beehive hairdos are back, and Day-Glo minis, and beads. It is now possible to spend $60 on a necktie that displays the contents of a man's medicine chest or a collage of bus transfers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And While You Were Gone . . . | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

Greenpeace's six-month campaign features a series of garish Day-Glo-red posters. The signs on the northbound side of the highway depict a worker in a protective suit and gas mask, and the southbound versions show an exploding nuclear bomb. Until Greenpeace slapped its posters on the billboards, they had been blank for two years as a result of a successful boycott against local merchants who advertised on them. "It's not clear whether Greenpeace should be labeled environmental nitwits or environmental traitors," groused Tom Lustig, an attorney for the anti-billboard group. Countered Jason Salzman, a Greenpeace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colorado: Nuclear Confrontation | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...people who are "getting everything" are nowhere to be seen among the picnickers. The only blacks visible wear the Day-Glo blazers of parking attendants. In fact, the prosperity of Duke's supporters is a point of pride to the campaign aide who asks me, "Do these people look like piney-woods rednecks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Duke's Addictive Politics | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

With its slums abutting the sea, its raffish hoodlums and its Day-Glo deco decor, Miami is the city to which all Jonathan Demme films aspire. Married to the Mob ended up there, long after Baldwin had played his memorable cameo as a Mafia stiff. Funny thing is that Demme only produced Miami Blues; his colleague from the Roger Corman B-movie Borstal of the '70s, George Armitage, is the writer-director. Funnier still, Armitage has one-upped his old pal. Whereas Demme's movies punctuate flaky comedy with explosions of violence, Miami Blues blends the two moods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cocktail With Rum and Cyanide | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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