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Consider the following items, all displayed in the Paris couture shows: Louis XIV theater-curtain trimmings decorating a hooped mini; velvet bustles and derriere butterfly bows; tutus; white taffeta capes; page boy, cowgirl and matador outfits; satin tunics; bubble coats; cancan skirts up at the front and down at the back; and, even more of a burlesque, satin minis designed to reveal black garters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Couture Goes Daring And Wacky | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...Judge William Wayne Justice. Nonetheless, entrepreneurs keep trying. Hard times in the oil patch have spurred hucksters to offer up abandoned office buildings, foreclosed motels and warehouses to the corrections department as makeshift pens. A few down- and-out Houstonians are even trying to foist off their homes as mini- detention centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: More Rooms for The Big House | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...turns angry, bewildered and curious, an anxious crowd descended on the Jefferson Square Theater in Columbia, S.C., last week. Their aim: to play a role in the next installment of a long-running American serial of sex, cash and power -- a show resembling some lurid made-for-TV mini-series that might be called God and Money. For six hours, harassed officials of the embattled PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) ministry were confronted at a public bankruptcy hearing by members of the flock that had supported the $203 million religious empire created by its ousted leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God and Money | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

...like fashion, education undergoes fads. While this season in fashion has witnessed the comeback of the mini-skirt, academics have seen the return of ethical education...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Striking a Balance in Ethics Education | 7/17/1987 | See Source »

...ANNIVERSARY done in Convention . . . the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth ARTICLE VII LIVING There's a Big Party On! The nation celebrates with superbashes and mini events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIVING There's a Big Party On! | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

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