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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN IT COMES to the question of boy meets girl, being Catholic is no easy task. In fact, if we can believe the cast of Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up! a musical comedy about life in a Catholic school, it's often a downright onus. Sure, taking communion and saying a couple "our fathers" is supposed to wash away those sinful thoughts, but when you come right down to it, no amount of praying seems to keep adolescent hormones down to acceptable levels for the church. As a result, either boys and girls literally separate from each...

Author: By David H. Polluck, | Title: Starting Much Too Late | 3/22/1985 | See Source »

Playing upon such glib, if at times cliched generalioes. Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up" makes for a lively, fun-filled evening of humor and song. Though the play's sexual and religious stereotypes occasionally border on the risque, the levity with which the actors execute their roles keeps even the most devout of Catholics from taking offense. Moreover, because the actors perform so well as an ensemble, the production rarely allows for a dull moment...

Author: By David H. Polluck, | Title: Starting Much Too Late | 3/22/1985 | See Source »

...other hand Gian Marco Venturi has provided an outlet for the Peter Pan in us it with a wing shouldered jacket and cowed collar. Leather specialist Gianni varsace has opted for a look that combines the best features of prep punk and cosa nostra the six stalwarts in coordinatingly cashing suits and ties demonstrates that designers have given up trying to teach men now to match their clothes and have decided to convert tastelessness into tastelessness. They matched sets. In the liberated '80's ther is no need for six guys to share the same closed...

Author: By Charles M. Sneid, | Title: Fun, Sun and Dumb--This Spring's New Looks | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...unidentified person stole a $280 leather jacket from a desk in Gund Hall between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Pipe Swinger, Theives Plague Harvard Campus | 3/16/1985 | See Source »

...group is actually called Stryper, a name inspired by the biblical assurance that "with His stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53: 5). Instead of throwing drumsticks into the audience, these metal missionaries toss out about 500 imitation-leather copies of the New Testament. "We are rock-'n'-roll evangelists," says Drummer Robert Sweet, 24. "Stryper is a modern-day John the Baptist crying in the world of rock for those who don't have the life of Christ to turn on the light switch. Our message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Lyrics for the Devil's Music | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

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