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Weeks said his wife was working behind the counter of the couple's business at about 3 p.m. when the robber opened his overcoat, revealing a gun stuffed in his belt...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain, | Title: Gun-Wielding Robber Strikes Harvard Square Liquor Store | 2/18/1984 | See Source »

...addition, a London Fog overcoat valued at $125 was reported taken from the first-floor coatroom of the Faculty Club between 7:30 and 10 p.m. Wednesday...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain, | Title: Gun-Wielding Robber Strikes Harvard Square Liquor Store | 2/18/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard Police responded to a call at Straus Hall after students reported that a man chased them from Wadsworth Gate to Straus. The suspect is described as between 5'11" and 6'1" and Black. At the time of the incident he was yearing a dark gray overcoat, me student said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Blotter | 1/27/1984 | See Source »

...colors. The policewomen were enthusiastic, the press enchanted. Gucci created a leather blouson and helmet that looked as if it belonged on a Flash Gordon storm trooper. The Fendi sisters, working as usual with Karl Lagerfeld, went far afield from their luxury furs and submitted a striking winter woolen overcoat with a storm cape that the Brontë sisters might have worn for a brisk constitutional on the moors. The other contenders-Milan's Mila Schön, and the Fontana Sisters of Rome-also made impressive showings. It was an embarrassment of riches and, as it turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Designers Get Down to Work | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...secret of Saint Laurent's longevity is in his daytime clothes, his brilliance shows in his extravagant evening fantasies. There are, to be sure, examples of pure, timeless classicism and of ethereal visions fashioned out of yards of Chantilly lace. More often he sheds convention like an overcoat in springtime. There are reckless forays into nudity, called see-through in the catalogue; avalanches of silk that swell the exemplary trapeze into a balloon; decadent wraith-wear for psychedelic occasions. Is this foolery (all done before the designer turned 40) vulgar, silly, nutty? Yes, probably all three. But some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Toasting Saint Laurent | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

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