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...star's concert tour for a week, traveling from Dallas to Houston to Austin to New Orleans. "I was surprised by her face," says Worrell. "It is beautiful and strange, very pure, and free of all indecision and self-doubt." Backstage before a concert, Madonna tried on a white leather vest and a miniskirt layered with fringe. Recalls Worrell: "Twirling before a mirror, fringe flying, she sang out, 'If I ever married a cowboy, this is what I'd wear!' And she would...
...American Indian by a favorite California artist, and a chain saw and accessories ($238) that were a Christmas present from the Secret Service. Bush listed among his 41 items (worth $8,989) 26 pairs of running shoes (most of which he gave away), a Steuben glass elephant and a leather flight jacket from Navy Secretary John Lehman, presented on the 40th anniversary of a bombing raid in which Bush was shot down at sea near Iwo Jima. In the self-improvement category, Bush received a 29-volume history of Ecuador (in Spanish), presented to him by President Leon Febres Cordero...
Remember what the yuppies did for sales of Saab, Cuisinart, Rolex and Burberry raincoats when those products became their symbols? Now it is the turn of the sneaker. The young urban professionals have their own: Reebok, a pricey ($30 to $60), soft-leather shoe that comes in six colors and 40 styles, including a popular high-top model. Says Edward Hurley, an assistant manager at an Athlete's Foot store in New York City: "All other shoes have been forced to take a back seat to Reeboks. It's the season's hottest shoe." He sold 700 pairs last month...
With their studded leather jackets, their taste for swastikas and grisly death's-heads, their pulsing choppers, their scraggly beards and their penchant for violence, the Hell's Angels in the 1960s became the nightmarish flip side of the American dream. During the 1970s, however, they attempted to scrub their outlaw image, depicting themselves as a peaceable, nationwide "family" united by a love of the open road. Last week, as some 1,000 heavily armed law-enforcement agents in 50 locations around the country swooped down and arrested more than 100 Angels, the once chaotic band of bikers was depicted...
...unease that was so evident throughout the day--that indeed had been building for two weeks--had been heightened by four bomb blasts in Dusseldorf and Cologne. On Saturday a march in Bonn sponsored by the leftist Green political party attracted 7,000 political radicals, peace activists and leather-jacketed punkers. They carried banners with anti-NATO and pro- Communist slogans. Police charged one group of marchers burning an American flag in Munsterplatz, a cobblestoned pedestrian mall in the city center, and used tear gas to break up some of the crowd. In the ensuing melee, eleven officers and some...