Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer manager in Munich: "These pieces are reverse time machines. They exude a flavor--even a musty smell--of yesterday, a bit of immortality." Rohrer keeps all his yesterdays in a drawer at home. Quinn keeps the family immortality collection snug in a bank vault, although his journalist wife Joan has been known to wear several pieces of it, simultaneously, on her wrist...
...Joan Rivers sent a LOVE AND KISSES telegram offering to help out with the bail money. "Thug Buster" T shirts began to appear on the streets of New York City, and an aspiring rock group wrote a song in his honor ("I'm not going to give you my pay/ Try and take it away/ Come on, make my day/ They call him the vigilante"). The red-bereted Guardian Angels jingled canisters in front of subway straphangers, collecting for his defense. But Bernhard Hugo Goetz, the 37-year-old electronics expert who shot four black teen-agers...
...more important to the return of her equanimity, the high-pitched criticism quieted: the recession was ending and her posh style no longer seemed so callous. But the First Lady also changed tack, remodeling her public persona. The Reagans still see Sinatra and invite the likes of Dynasty Star Joan Collins to state dinners, but Zipkin and his dandyish ilk have been much less in evidence. The President's wife has devoted more time and effort to earnest, conventionally First Lady-like endeavors...
LOUDEST WHISTLING IN THE DARK: Jane Fonda, Linda Evans and Joan Collins being glad they're over...
...movies he has seen, including one about a French chanteuse named Leni Lamaison and another about the title Spider Woman. Braga plays both, as well as Julia's girlfriend. Of the three, Braga found Leni the most intriguing "because she was a woman of the '40s like Joan Crawford." But with Braga around, who needs to be nostalgic...