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...present symbolic muddle is enough to make one nostalgic for the good old days when everybody imagined that he could peg a person's status with only a few facts about the subject's clothes, schooling, job, neighborhood and car. The days when everybody enjoyed the habit of looking at all the artifacts of civilized existence as though they were primarily badges of rank. The days when elitist Middle Americans casually sneered at fellow citizens who lived in suburban split-level houses-which only a Rockefeller could afford today. Inflation is just one of the things that undermined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hard Times for the Status-Minded | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...Bing Crosby, and a tournament official would inform him he was paired with the Husband. Bogart Jackson knew exactly what he would do. The Husband would be searching the woods for an errant tee shot, and Bogart Jackson would play away. Bogart Jackson would use his three-iron and peg the ball low and hard, curling it into the woods where the Husband would be bent over. Perhaps if the three-iron were perfectly aimed...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: From Tee to Green: A Christmas Tale | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

Suade Cowboys, Planet Street and Square Peg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE Nov. 12 - 18 | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

Britannia once ruled the waves; today its customers can make the attempt. A whole navy is available off the peg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Money Can Buy | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Squeers' swinish daughter Fanny, a lilt-ingfemmefatale in the Crummies' troupe, a bitter near-deaf crone called Peg. By sulking or shrugging or exacting fatal revenge, she spins three sprightly variations on the theme. Nicholas' sturdiest friend and Kate's most dastardly seducer are both played by the same actor: Bob Peck has a biathlon field day exhibiting the far poles of man's temperaments. Even John Woodvine, a bleak house of malevolence as old Ralph Nickleby, gets to sing as the star of a comic opera skit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dickens of a Show: NICOLAS NICKELBY | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

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