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Indeed, it seems the only thing that's plain anymore is that the world of ice cream has changed drastically in recent years...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Business as Usual? | 7/6/1983 | See Source »

...rate of about $1 for a portion the size of a medium bag of chips. Interesting prodicts, though, also deserve interesting containers, and Gainsborough offers that his popcorn will also be sold in 1-, 4 1/2-, 6-, and 16-gallon cans. Of course, the cans will be anything but plain--artists have been hired to design them with colorful drawings, lithographs and decals...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Business as Usual? | 7/6/1983 | See Source »

...million more covered the grassy slopes around the Jasna Gora monastery. Some Poles held banners in red and white, indiscriminately mixing religion and politics in messages such as HOPE-SOLIDARITY and YOU ARE THE REAL FATHER OF SOLIDARITY. Others laid flowers along the papal path or held up plain wooden crosses as tokens of what their nation had suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of the Native | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

Whereas Enders sometimes projects an air of lofty erudition, the boyish and plain-spoken Motley relies on agile street smarts rather than deskbound knowledge, and on an instinctive gift for dealing with individuals rather than ideas. The son of an American oil executive and a British-Brazilian mother, he was born and grew up amid sun-splashed privilege in Rio de Janeiro. After graduating from the Citadel military school in Charleston, S.C., Motley joined the Air Force and was posted from 1965 to 1967 in Panama-his only Central American experience-and later in Alaska. There he switched careers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Charmer and a Pro | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...check onstage. A revival of Jerome Robbins' fierce, street-hip New York Export: Op. Jazz has corps kids of the '80s snapping their fingers just like gang squads of the West Side Story era. This ballet shows its age (1958) only in the costumes: the sweatshirts are plain, without any emblazonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Adding Some Sizzle at A.B.T. | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

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