Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time they cut a couple of singles for a local label called Steeltown in 1968, word of the young prodigies with a front man who could sing and move like Jackie Wilson had started to spread as far as Detroit and Motown. Calls were placed; connections were made. In November 1969, Motown released the first Jackson 5 single, I Want You Back, with a propulsive vocal by Michael, 11. The record reached No. 1 in twelve weeks...
Over the next six years, the Jackson 5 became one of the cornerstone acts for a label that had more than its fair share of the best soul in the land. But after seven more Top Ten singles, there were the inevitable career dissatisfactions. Their father struck up a deal with Epic Records, provoking bad feeling at Motown and some family tension. Jermaine, who had married Berry Gordy's daughter Hazel, stayed behind at Motown, soloing, while the other brothers moved...
...Alabama P 62 Mondale wears the union label in the South 's strongest labor state. Jackson's push has split black leaders; _ some back Mondale. Glenn is going for the red-white-and-blue vote. Hart lacks full delegate slates...
While moderates view Darman as a welcome balancing force, conservatives see him as a liberal mole. Says Conservative Columnist M. Stanton Evans: "He has undermined the Reagan agenda." Even a sympathetic co-worker admits that "Dick would feel comfortable working in a Democratic Administration." Friends label him a Government junkie, an operator who hopes to spend most of his life working at the top levels of Washington officialdom...
...current vogue for vintage dressing means the clothes in most of these stores, though handpicked and drycleaned, won't be dirt cheap. In the old-but-not-antique shops, dresses run around $25, coats around $40. Their condition varies, and the words "as is" on a label are a signal to look closely before buying, tags usually warn of rips and missing buttons...