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...space cadets assume that Val Gals are simply updated versions of the 1940s bobbysoxer. Kiss my tuna! One conspicuous difference: the amount of billies a true Val pours into clothes, sunglasses, tanning oil, lip gloss, Tab, Doritos, Kahlúa brownies, Bubblicious chewing gum, beer (Heinies and Lowies), burritos, movies, Harlequin romances, records (anything by Journey, Rush, Van Halen, AC/DC) and movies (alltime fave: Mommie Dearest). Other Total Necessities: a blow dryer, a Walkman and at least one gold chain. PAVs are obsessed with fashion, crowding mondo cool stores from the Galleria in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to the Galleria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: How Toe-dully Max Is Their Valley | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...seems that Actor Christopher Atkins, 21 (The Blue Lagoon), has reached that difficult age: no longer a teen crush but not yet an adult lead. He does have a new flick (The Pirate Movie), and following the well-trampled path of bubble-gum idols before him, he has cut some wax before he wanes: his first record, How Can I Live Without Her, is currently No. 89 on the charts. But there was still something missing, so his handlers suggested a take-it-off takeoff of the now famous Richard Avedon portrait of Natassia Kinski, 21, with a languorous python...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 16, 1982 | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...addition to the protests. Draft Action is helping the ACLUmobilize a legal challenge to the enforcement of the Selective Service Act. "We want to gum up the process," Lynn said, adding that the procedure is "infested with constitutional and legal problems...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Registration Eraders Face Prosecution | 6/29/1982 | See Source »

Little League in Tenafly, N.J. reflects the contradiction and poignant absurdities of middle-class suburban life as well as any other ritual, including mass high school mating rites in the back hall near they gum and family dinner table discussions on the pros and cons of marijuana...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Different Perspectives on The Summer Game | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

...karat flawless stone headed toward $61,100. A handful of fine-arts fans applauded when Juliet and Her Nurse, a 19th century oil painting by British Artist J.M.W. Turner, was sold for $6.4 million during 6½ minutes of frenzied bidding. A 1952 Mickey Mantle bubble-gum baseball card sold for $3,100 in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Baseball Cards to Blue Chips | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

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