Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partners' next move will be good news for women who would like to wear Lacroix but not pay his couture prices (for evening wear: typically $8,000 to $18,000). In March they will plunge into off-the-peg. The first collection of about 100 pieces, including some in leather and knits, will be sold in only 110 stores worldwide (price range: $300 to $8,000). Says Lacroix: "There will be no flowers, no ruffles, no bustles, but color, proportion, good...
Commending the Washington fans for their leather lungs, Gibbs admitted, "I think we'd have had a hard time beating Minnesota any other place." But the limits of honesty were strained when he went on to say, "I was lucky enough to come into a great situation here in 1981. I think any other coach would have won here also." Since starting out 0-5 that season, the Redskins have won 84 of 112 games and reached three Super Bowls. All this week in San Diego, Gibbs is in grave danger of being declared a genius...
...movie Top Gun, Actor Tom Cruise embodied the image of the modern, macho fighter pilot: close-cropped hair, aviator sunglasses and, of course, the classic brown leather flight jacket. Unlike Navy flyers, like the one Cruise portrayed, Air Force pilots have not been issued leather jackets since the late 1940s. Last month the Air Force won congressional approval for a plan to supplement the current supply of synthetic jackets with genuine leather. Although several Congressmen grumbled about the $7.4 million cost, Air Force Chief of Staff General Larry Welch argued that the jackets will enhance esprit de corps and perhaps...
...reads IT IS ARGUED THAT DOUBLE SUICIDE IS THE SUBLIME CULMINATION OF LOVE placidly sips melon juice. Nothing disturbs the clean blue air except high tinkling cries of "Kawaii!" (Isn't it cute!) "Look," coos an extravagantly chic young mother to her three-year-old son, dapper in black leather pants, while his leather-jacketed father records the scene on videotape. "Look over there at Mickey...
Victor gives an example. "One night a friend of mine was in Christy's Market near Newbury Street," he says. "Then some people--college students--yelled out to him, `Hey cool guy with leather,'" says Victor. "He came and got all of us. Then they were all scared and humble...