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...Eastern's workers fretted over last week's layoffs, they wore lapel buttons, distributed by the unions, that read: WE STAND TOGETHER. But that defiant-sounding message is printed on a peel-off sticker. If the new talks yield a settlement satisfactory to the workers, they plan to remove the stickers. The buttons would then show Eastern's familiar blue logo and a new message: WORKING TOGETHER. Rather than strike, the airline's employees want to keep on earning their wings every...
...domestic spending cuts contained in his budget proposals. They had asked for the gathering because, as one put it, "members of Congress were getting back to us and asking 'Is the President really still committed?' " Reagan put that question to rest by walking into the meeting sporting a 6-in.diameter lapel button shaped like an octagonal stop sign and bearing the words HALT THE DEFICIT. Said one participant: "He sounded as if he was really up for making a deal...
Richey said he had considered Thayer's reputation a mitigating factor in the case, but he added that the court would not "hang a medal on the lapel of your coat for the breach of trust, for the false statements . . . and the obstruction of justice you have engaged in in recent years." Lawyers for Harris and Thayer asked that they be given community service in lieu of hard time. But Richey said a stiff sentence was needed "to maintain the integrity of our sacred system of justice...
Television would seem to have devoured the documentary film whole: in 90- second bites on the nightly news, in the lapel-grabbing journalism of 60 Minutes, even in the nature studies that now stud the pbs schedule. So why put nonfiction on the big screen? Because there are stories whose subjects, and filmmakers whose points of view, demand the isolation and intensity of the movie-house experience. One such story is The Times of Harvey Milk, winner of this year's Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Its plot--all-American guy shoots the mayor of San Francisco...
Will customers understand the Ferré lapel that eases down to the waist and folds over like a scarf? How about that Comme des Garçons dress-is that the armhole or the neckband, and where does all that damned draping go? Do clients want to be elegant and easy with Armani, gilded with Lagerfeld, transported by Miyake to some astral plane where clothes, craft and fine art all cozy up? Do they want to stay with the hard, somber shades of the past few seasons or break loose with the Day-Glo flash of fresh fluorescence? Do they...