Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only proprietor in the N.F.L. who does not feign piety, and he is one of just two (Cincinnati's Paul Brown is the other) whose understanding of the game is profound. A middle-age rock 'n' roller in a '50s hairdo and a black leather jacket, Davis casts a slim shadow, but it managed to cover elephantine Coach John Madden for ten years. After five seasons, including the championship year of 1980, current Head Coach Tom Flores remains a minor presence...
...designs-there was a general consensus that they were excellent. Laura Biagiotti came up with not only a trim pants-skirt and navy blouson but also a knit pullover colored wine red and gold, the official city colors. The policewomen were enthusiastic, the press enchanted. Gucci created a leather blouson and helmet that looked as if it belonged on a Flash Gordon storm trooper. The Fendi sisters, working as usual with Karl Lagerfeld, went far afield from their luxury furs and submitted a striking winter woolen overcoat with a storm cape that the Brontë sisters might have worn...
...decision, then announced the results just at the onset of the holidays, hoping that Yuletide good will would dissipate disappointment and defuse jealousies. The Fendis won. But, then, so did the Guccis. It was, perhaps inevitably, a draw. The Fendis would provide most of the basics, and Gucci the leather goods. The first designer wear should hit the streets on April 21, just in time for the Birthday of Rome celebration. What Solomonic cunning! What a gesture of fashion brotherhood! And-let's face it-what a relief. Who could ever have thought that uniforms would be so. . . important...
...have been mentioned as possible successors to Andropov. Silver-haired Konstantin Chernenko, a Brezhnev crony who lost out to Andropov in the succession maneuvering in 1982, took a seat in the front row along with Gromyko and the splendidly beribboned Ustinov. Premier Tikhonov sat in Andropov's green leather chair. (Tikhonov subsequently left Andropov's seat empty and sat in the one beside...
...easy, even tempting, to think of them all as old, tough-as-leather Marines. But they were also Army and Navy, cooks and drivers, pilots and paratroopers. Most of them were young, and had never seen combat before...