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...passion for fashion is a dangerous thing. It can, if you're not careful, fool the eye into betraying the body. Just when you think it might be safe to go out in a thigh-high mini, the fashion oracles say it's the year of the catsuit. I'm going to wear a neck-to-toe unitard in public? No way. I have only to think ladies' room (worse: airplane lavatory) to dismiss such a pernicious garment from my wardrobe. What sensible woman wants to reveal her every -- and I do mean every -- curve and bulge? And who wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Ode to a Tyrannical Muse (or Why I Love and Hate Fashion) | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

Among the most novel programs by any U.S. regional troupe is the annual mini- festival in which Actors Theater of Louisville focuses on some slice of the (typically European) past. This year's theme, Italian traditions in tragedy and comedy, embraces not only plays but also opera, ballet, symphony concerts, art exhibits and more. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 8, 1990 | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...year-old Bush decided he was ready for bigger things. Neil and his wife Sharon were welcomed as a winsome couple in Denver's highly stratified social set. Sharon volunteered to help at Children's Hospital, Denver's most chic charity. She sold cookies through Cookie Express, a mini-business she started with chum Nancy Davis Zarif, daughter of Denver oil tycoon Marvin Davis, who dominated society in the city. Neil played squash at the Denver Club. But genteel poverty amid rich friends pinched: with Neil's $30,000 Amoco salary and a relatively modest $210,000 home, the Bushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running with A Bad Crowd: Neil Bush & the $1 billion Silverado debacle | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...surface there is not much about Bill Mathers to bring to mind Augustus McCrae or Woodrow Call, the gritty cattle drivers of the epic novel and television mini-series Lonesome Dove. Too much civilization has piled up in the corners of Mathers' face and body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Where the Buffalo Roamed | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...human inhabitants of this mini-world -- four men and four women, all single -- were named last week. Ranging in age from 26 to 66, they come from the U.S., West Germany, Britain and Belgium, and include a physician, a botanist, a marine biologist and experts on engineering and agriculture. Says crew leader Bernd Zabel, who was general manager for Biosphere's construction: "The closer the day comes, the more excited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Noah's Ark - the Sequel | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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