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...used to buy only & bric-a-brac, which was all I could afford. I remember admiring, but not buying, a pair of beautiful Victorian lace curtains that cost (pounds)45, or $84 then. Two months ago, I became the proud owner of two pairs of those curtains for $80. Hog heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Apr. 22, 1985 | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...used to buy only bric-a-brac, which was all I could afford. I remember admiring, but not buying, a pair of beautiful Victorian lace curtains that cost (pounds)45, or $84 then. Two months ago, I became the proud owner of two pairs of those curtains for $80. Hog heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Apr. 22, 1985 | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...connoisseur of the deadpan schlock of pop culture, pro wrestling in its latest guise is like a trip to hog heaven. And the crowd is a big part of the show: part upscale, part down-home. Tuxedoed yuppies mix gingerly with the + rip-his-eyes-out! regulars. Andy Warhol shows up to pronounce, "It's hip. It's exciting. It's America." Gloria Steinem stops by to snort, of woman- mauling Roddy Piper, "He certainly is unfit to wear a skirt." Geraldine Ferraro apostrophizes, "Roddy Piper, why don't you come out and fight like a man?" Meanwhile, each month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hype! Hell Raising! Hulk Hogan! | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Hiller and Head Hog Honored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 2/7/1985 | See Source »

...average acre of Iowa land sold for $417 in 1970 but was worth $2,147 at the start of the '80s. Increasingly prosperous farmers borrowed heavily to buy additional acreage and new equipment. "In the '70s, you couldn't do anything wrong in agriculture," recalls Cliff Vrieze, 39, a hog farmer in Trimont, Minn. "You could do almost anything and make a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Grapes of Wrath | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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