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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garment and whisks it to a laboratory where it is sectioned, stripped of dyes and studied under microscopes. Spilhaus is searching for counterfeit cashmere, and all too often he finds it. A garment labeled 70% cashmere/30% wool frequently contains no more than 5% cashmere. The rest? Recycled rags, human hair, acrylic, asbestos, rabbit fur and even newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crackdown by Cashmere Cops | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...ECAC Championship would assure a team of an automatic NCAA bid. A trip to the title game tomorrow night can give a team the league's second invitation to the national tournament. A loss in the semis, and a team's chances are as good as Don King's hair ever flattening...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Four Woodsmen With Axes to Grind | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...marvelous job as the ambiguously innocent Agnes. She treads the narrow line between insanity and sainthood with all the fey grace that could be desired. As she floats across the stage, she resembles nothing so much as an unnaturally ethereal pre-Raphaelite saint, with her haze of red hair and huge desperate eyes. Her feet scarcely seem to touch the ground. She appears moored to the earth by only the most fragile of bonds, ready at the slightest inclination to cast off her moorings and soar off the stage. It is perhaps fortunate for all concerned that her costume...

Author: By Ellen J. Harvey, | Title: Second to Nun | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard plays in an intense game, one that goes down to the wire, well, that game is "not very good for the hair line. Not that I have much hair left anyway...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Wit and Wisdom | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...aside as the myth of lighter-equals-better gets played out. Even in the movie, the dark-skinned president of the college was married to a lighter-skinned woman. Lee proved that beauty can be found in short, natural afros and brown eyes as well as in long, straight hair and blue-colored contact lenses...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: 'School Daze' Is Dazzling | 3/9/1988 | See Source »

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