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...constraints I concentrated on those brands widely available in America. The Beck's ads claim that no matter where you go in this country: "The word around town is Beck's." I was turned off, however, by the images of men in their forties trying to sport Don Johnson pajama pants and Ray-bans while hawking brew. Strike...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Liquid Assets | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...advice to The Neuter Computer, a guidebook developed by New York City's Computer Equity Training Project and scheduled to be published in December. Its contents include 56 learning activities and 96 pedagogical tricks, ranging from apportioning computer time equally between boys and girls to scheduling late-night computer pajama parties. The Project on Equal Education Rights, an offshoot of the National Organization for Women Legal Defense Fund, publishes handy "equity action kits" that show teachers how to help girls avoid being trapped in "pink-collar ghettos." Warns Director Leslie Wolfe: "We're seeing the old wine of sexism being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: From Programs to Pajama Parties | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Marge came in from the kitchen and addressed the crowd. She wore jet beads and a black blouse with a naughty scoop neck and black pajama pants, and she looked young and terrific. On the upright was a bouquet from her students. "I hope you all don't melt," she said. "Do you feel like sardines? I'm giving you all the air I can." It was a hot night for the high plains, and all the doors and windows were open. "I'm so proud of them," Marge went on. "I just hope nerves don't take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Montana: the Recital At Marge's House | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...only The Mystery of Edwin Drood consistently shows a modest profit. So perhaps the most eagerly awaited event of the Broadway year was last week's Big Deal, a splashy, sassy, streetwise show from Bob Fosse. As choreographer or director, Fosse, 58, staged ten consecutive hits, from 1955's Pajama Game to 1978's Dancin'. Since Gower Champion's death in 1980 and Harold Prince's semiretirement after the 1985 fiasco Grind, Fosse has stood alone in his capacity to make movement seem magic. On the strength of his name, ticket buyers gave Big Deal a $1.5 million advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Slick, Sassy, Borrowed and Blue | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...hand gestures down the torso. The first-act climax, a mob convulsion set to Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar, recaps the form-in- formlessness trick that Fosse calls "the amoeba." His sultry sexual trio for Me and My Shadow derives from his Tony-winning Steam Heat for Pajama Game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Slick, Sassy, Borrowed and Blue | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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