Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pretrial publicity has been vast. De Lorean, lanky and handsome at 59, and his fashion model wife, Cristina, 34, make lively copy and photos. De Lorean's rise to the top corporate ranks at General Motors, his attempt to prove that he was an automotive genius by creating and producing his own $26,000 futuristic car, and his disastrous wrong turn into association with agents posing as drug smugglers, all are the stuff of high drama. Declares Defense Attorney Donald Ré: "I have very serious concerns about whether an impartial jury, to which John is entitled...
...programs has shifted the concern of policy-makers and policy-shapers away to other issues. Somehow urban problems, at least as they were described by the rhetoric of the 1960s, have intractable or at best only marginally susceptible to solution. Housing initiatives--from public housing to urban renewal to "model cities" to "section 8" to housing allowances--have not significantly reversed urban decline, much less brought residents back to devastated areas like the South Bronx. New concepts of urban design, many pioneered at Harvard and MIT, have produced some better buildings but have not transformed the urban environment. Poverty programs...
...capture youngsters, manufacturers frequently seed schools or universities, giving discounts on computers in order to get their machines in the door. Such practices date back to the mid-1950s, when IBM gave colleges a 60% markdown on its giant Model 650 computer. The venture paid off when students trained on IBM equipment went on to head data-processing departments in industry...
Like many a sun worshiper, Actress-Model Ann Turkel, 32, used to spend hours working on a seamless, all-over tan, but got tired of "always hanging out naked in my backyard." So she and her boyfriend, Austrian Designer Hans Buhringer, set out to find a solution to this two-tone torment. The result, appropriately, is called "the unsuit," available for men and women at $35 to $40 and made with a special cotton material that allows some, but not all, of the sun to shine through...
BORN. To Jerry Hall, 27, top Texan model, and Mick Jagger, 40, untrammeled, untamed lead singer of the Rolling Stones: their first child, a daughter; in New York City. Jagger, who has two other daughters, Karis, 13, by American Singer Marsha Hunt, and Jade, 12, by his ex-wife Bianca Jagger, was present in the delivery room but thus far does not intend to marry Hall, apparently fearing that a divorce would cost him millions. Prenuptial agreements, Jagger recently said, "don't stand up in court hardly...