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...hottest ticket in Manhattan last week was printed on a white glove, but for most of the 1,500 guests who showed up for Michael Jackson's Thriller party at the American Museum of Natural History, it was strictly a hands-off evening. Almost no one got within hailing distance of the carefully shielded host, who sported a discreet hairpiece in his first public appearance since he was hospitalized last month for scalp burns suffered while filming a TV commercial. After accepting awards from CBS Records and the Guinness Book of World Records, which certified his Thriller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 20, 1984 | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...fair reflection of the will of the people." Chief Education Officer George Brizan, 41, is planning to form and lead the National Democratic Party, but its main draw is Robert Grant, a longtime lecturer in law who also happens to be "Soca Boca," one of the island's hottest disc jockeys. Winston Whyte, 39, who was released from four years of imprisonment during the invasion, hopes to drum up support in the villages. But he too concedes that "Gairy is the most organized force in the country." All three men are also overshadowed by the memory of Bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping the Welcome Mat Out | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...McCoy but not as durable. Most popular is the so-called Woodland pattern, one of two camouflage styles, along with Desert, currently being worn by U.S. troops in the field. The relatively low price (as little as $13 for a commercial knockoff of four-pocket pants, one of the hottest sellers; from $23 to $30 for the Government version) and the antichic chic have obvious attractions. Robin Figaro, 26, a Chicago computer operator, bought her camouflage jumpsuit "because I like to be noticed." She adds, "I always tell people that my Army jacket was worn in Viet Nam. I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Code Green, Tan and Brown | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...BECOME somewhat fashionable to criticize American government and, often in the same breath, democracy itself. Yet it is the same democracy American attack, which allows them the freedom to voice those criticisms. Many rightfully consider this country's from of government the hottest commodity the United States has going for it-especially those foreigners who do not enjoy the luxury of free speech and free expression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First You Register | 2/4/1984 | See Source »

...plot for Stephen King's next excursion into the macabre? No, the real-life scenario now being played out by film makers scrambling to bring the works of America's hottest horror writer to the screen. Christine, based on King's recent bestseller about a killer automobile, opened around the country in early December, the sixth film of a King novel and the third to be released in the past five months. It followed last summer's Cujo, about a murderously rabid St. Bernard, and The Dead Zone, starring Christopher Walken as a schoolteacher tormented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Giving Hollywood the Chills | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

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