Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rehearse in abandoned warehouses and to run away to New York without telling their parents. New York, that mecca of artistic opportunity, proves to be tougher than this bunch bargained for. Braving myriad evils, from muggers to threatening rival dance groups, from discouraging agents to hordes of mohawked, leather-clad punks, the Adventurous Eight pirouette their way to stardom, shedding only a few poignant tears of disappointment along...
William F. Buckley Jr., seated in a leather easy chair and wielding a ball- point pen for emphasis, holds forth on an unlikely subject for a conservative guru: the techniques of celestial navigation. The Fonz (Henry Winkler) steps off his motorcycle for some straight talk to children about sexual abuse. "Somebody touching your private parts," he urges, "is a secret you don't keep!" Esther Williams, the aquatic screen star from the 1940s and '50s, dives back into the pool to show parents how to teach their infants to swim...
...defense for self-display. The irony of the androgynous ideal is that a contradicts that basic purpose of careful dressing: attracting the admirable sexual partners. The 1980's androgyny fad is merely a brief fashion span of the anxious and the outrageous, one that will go the way of leather miniskirts and spiked hair does...
...four women and two men walked silently to their red leather armchairs in Room 110 of the Federal District Court Building in lower Manhattan. As dozens of reporters and spectators listened intently, the clerk asked Jury Foreman Richard Zug, an IBM computer specialist, if the panel had come to a decision. "We have," replied Zug. Reading carefully from the verdict form, Zug announced, "On actual malice: to the question, Has the plaintiff proved by clear and convincing evidence that a person or persons at Time Inc. knew that the defamatory statement was false or had serious doubts to its truth...
Women have a little more flexibility, depending whom they want to be taken for. Angora sweater, tight skirt, colored nylons and pumps the Screaming Wellesley. Useful only if you want six slobbering moustaches in leather jackets and open shirts crooning. "We sure is from Harvard" as their breath corrodes your makeup. On a weekend, looking like you're almost off to a party provides a useful excuse to disengage from the lovestruck Lothario trying to stuff his phone number down your décolletage ("Excuse me, I'm expected at the party the football team is throwing"). Another weekend option...