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When Sara leaves high school, her mother presents official rules for the mating game: "First a watch, then an engagement ring, finally a wedding band. After marriage, a woman should get a mink stole, then a mink jacket, then a mink coat, then a house on Long Island." But by the time Sara passes step No. 3, the rules no longer apply...
When it was all over, the people wearing ranch mink coats and silk suits got up from reserved seats and left the stadium. But the fans wearing sneakers and jeans and old ski jackets stayed in their standing-room sheep pens and refused to move. For the better part of an hour after the game, they remained where they were, bouncing rhythmically up and down, throwing whatever bits of paper they had forgotten to throw earlier, waving thousands of blue-and-white national flags and roaring, "Argentina! Ar-gen-ti-na!" To mark the occasion, antigovernment terrorists known...
...their families has declined by 20,000. One London group of U.S. executives, Tax Equity for Americans Abroad (TEAA), has launched a spirited campaign to mail tea bags to Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, the bill's main backer, after he chastised "jet-setting" Americans abroad and their "mink-swathed" wives. The planners intended this symbolic Washington tea party to be a protest against an unfair tax policy. Complains Robert Worcester, co-chairman of the group: "An awful lot of people have gone back already, and the indecision by Congress is causing a great deal of anguish. People...
...best and brightest new chariots have power brakes and steering, automatic transmission, air conditioning, pushbutton everything, burnished walnut burl paneling, 18 layers of paint, bark-tanned glove-leather upholstery, gold-plated fixtures, eight-track stereo and, at extra cost, carpeting of ermine, mink or chinchilla...
...ceases to be amazed when she hears Elvis Costello sing because "how could such good music come from such a wimpy-looking guy?" You too can go ponder that question at the Orpheum tonight at 7:30, because "The Other Elvis" will be there playing wimp rock, along with Mink de Ville and Nick Lowe. Tickets are $6.50 or $7.50, with a $2 discount if you can prove you are an Afghanistanian citizen. Seems this is "Be Kind to Central Asians week...