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Word: leathers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There and the film Time Bandits, Voyagers! (NBC, Sunday, 7-8 p.m.) features Jon-Erik Hexum as a pilgrim from the future who crash-lands in the apartment of a lonely city boy (Meeno Peluce). Hexum, who is rigged out in knee boots, tight trou and leather jerkin, looks to have lost his way en route to a community-theater production of The Pirates of Penzance, but convinces the incredulous Peluce of his credentials by whisking him off to Egypt, 1450 B.C., where they discover Moses in the bulrushes; France, 1918, where they frolic during World War Iand Dayton, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Blackboard Jumble | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

Cuccia took over--in his first varsity appearance at QB--and moved Harvard down the field for the first time in the game. On his second series in the game, midway through the third quarter, Cuccia ran the Multi flex like the old single-wing of leather helmet days, taking snaps in the shotgun and sprinting out to either pass or throw The sophomore quarterback executed an 80-yard drive for Harvard's first and only touchdown on the day. But Cuccia, moving the Multi flex again on the next series, suffered a pulled hamstring. He would neither throw...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Love and Hate | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

WHAT PUTS DIVA in a class above the usual plotty thriller is its bizarre setting. There are no romantic sidewalk cafes or sunsets over the Eiffel Tower in this Paris. Instead, the viewer enters a world of neon and cellophane and leather--a world in which vast underground garages contain video palaces and cats have names like "Ayatollah" and everyone lives in a loft. And yet, what makes this punked-out environment intriguing is that it contains many small reminders of the old Paris. Jules first meets Alba when he watches her shoplift records in a discomat. She is dressed...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Scenes of Paris | 10/6/1982 | See Source »

...snatched the Governor's seat from Baker's grandfather Howard Sr. ("This is Round 2," quipped an aide to the majority leader), went on to serve three terms and died in 1969. The former Rhodes scholar has countered Baker's hard work with a little shoe leather of his own-literally. Since his campaign began in July 1981, Cooper has worn out three pairs of walking shoes and logged 63,000 miles in his car crisscrossing the district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The House: Political Genes and Reaganomics | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

Galvach is one of the growing number of shoppers across the U.S. who have discovered the surprising fact that buying at factory-outlet stores can wind up saving them anywhere from 20% to 70% on everything from designer jeans and leather goods to fine china and chain saws. Many middle-income families are traveling hundreds of miles to buy top-quality merchandise at rock-bottom prices. Says Jim Randall, a Connecticut real estate developer who in 1980 launched a factory-outlet shopping center in Norwalk: "This is not a fluke. Today's consumers are smarter and more value-conscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cut-Rate Fever | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

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