Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unsuccessful effort to spur sales. In January the company decided to drop the Adam altogether after suffering a 1984 loss of $259 million on the machine. Commodore lost $20.8 million in the first three months of this year, partly because it reduced the basic price of its model 64 by 25%, to $145. And even IBM two months ago halted production of the PCjr, which had sold poorly with its price...
That female sigh reverberating across the land was for rock's working-class hero, born to run and now saddled for the marriage stakes. Bruce Springsteen, 35, is settling down with his sweetheart of six months, Julianne Phillips, 25, a model turned actress from Lake Oswego, Ore. He and the blue-eyed brunet beauty will wed this week in a nuptial Mass at her hometown church (both are Roman Catholics, neither has been married before). "We're very proud to have Bruce Springsteen in our family," bubbled the rocker's mother-in-law-to-be. "We just couldn...
Photographer Patrick Demarchelier, who was originally scheduled to do Stephanie's LIFE and Mademoiselle pictures, suggests, "She's a personality. A model you use to do fashion. You can put clothes on a personality, but you're photographing the person more." Personality like that may help a second-rung designer like Coveri scramble for first class ("She will be the ambassadress of my fashion," he announces), but it carries a whole portfolio of particular problems. Catherine Oxenberg, who still works as a model when she is not making regular appearances on Dynasty, is a daughter of Princess Elisabeth of Yugoslavia...
...reports Marina Fausti, fashion editor of Moda. "She was very nice with everybody," says Gilles Tapie, who has done the best Stephanie photos so far. He caught a nice kind of regal raunch for a cover and bathing-suit layout in Elle, and reflects, "She's short for a model, and she's not a beautiful girl. She's muscled in the arms . . . She could be a boy with her short hair. But when she's in a bathing suit in front of a camera she becomes very feminine. And she has a great body...
...technological marvel that would set new industry standards for ease of use and visual display. It did, but even marvels must survive in the marketplace. Last week the slow-selling Lisa, which the company renamed Macintosh XL in January, joined the IBM PCjr. and Apple's own model III in the great, and growing, computer junkyard. Apple will discontinue production of the machine this summer. Said Company Spokeswoman Jane Anderson: "It just wasn't an economically viable product...