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...tonight, like every Saturday night, the Adams House resident will don a Lurex miniskirt and make $40 as a go-go dancer at the Central Square nightclub...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Harvard Student by Day, Go-Go Dancer by Night | 2/22/1986 | See Source »

...dressy holiday line, due in the stores this month, again uses sweat material, this time black-with-gold lurex laced through it. Nearly all her tops have giant removable shoulder pads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Hot-Selling Locker Room Look | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...socks come in just about every hue and mix and material imaginable. Some striped jobs look like pousse-café or rugby sweaters gone south; others come in cable knits and heathery cottons. There are jacquard knits, woolens in every shade from bubble-gum pink to moonstone gray and Lurex numbers aglitter with specks of gold and silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Layered Look for Legs | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...fall line-up eschewed traditional blues, browns and grays in favor of the baby pinks, brilliant yellows and other bright pastels usually reserved for spring. To top off the show, Smith's 19-year-old sister Doris diddy-bopped out in a 1972 bridal outfit: a strapless white Lurex gown worn with a white fake-fur jacket and a gauzy veil with a feather stuck in the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Soul on Seventh Avenue | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...Last week Variety lumped together some specimens. There is the deodorant fortified with TD-4, the Confectioners 10-X sugar, the toothpaste containing WD-9, the motor oil boasting an "active ingredient" called Z-7. Other fortifiers, pharmaceutical gimmicks and syllabic concoctions from Madison Avenue test tubes: Gardol, Estron, Lurex, Lumium, Vionate, Bio-Dyne, Rynosec and Purscent, Liquifix, Radionics. Opaque-Ion, Neo-Synephrine, Hydrolin, SLS, Theradan, Sarthionate and Thorexin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aspirin, Anyone? | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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