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Handkerchief Points. Playfulness is the spirit for nearly all the Paris pack. Pierre Cardin's minis are hooked up at the shoulder like a toga or slide over the head, poncho fashion. His hemlines dip gracefully into handkerchief points. Emanuel Ungaro's Moroccan striped minidresses are bloused at the hips with yarn belts and designed to be worn over red or green tights. Karl Lagerfeld's silk versions for Chloe look like babydolls without the bottoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Thinking Shorter | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...tradition of honesty in their marriage, and she realized she needed to draw strength from him. "The truth set us free," she says. "When I told him, he cried ... But a huge weight lifted because we could share it." Sneaking her new baby into the hospital under a poncho, Sandy nursed her by Mark's bedside. This homey act gave her husband a peaceful sense of the continuity of life, she explains. For the viewer, this serene prologue to the dying patients awakens a sense that lives and relationships are as important as death. Says Roemer: "I felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Death Watch | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...itchy wool thermal underwear and a couple of wool sweaters still do the job better than most commercial products. Wool retains its warmth when wet--as anybody who has awakened to frozen cottom sweat-shirts can tell you. Over all this is once again an army product--the nylon poncho, a $4.98 product that most of the army-navy storeowners jacked-up in price when they found out how good...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: It's Cold in Them There Hills | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

...paterfamilias, director and centrifugal force of The Family is Marvin Camillo, 36, a dark, mustachioed man inclined to high-riser blue shoes and flowered shirts, whom his company -not entirely jokingly-call "Poncho God." Camillo, one of the few members of The Family who is not an ex-convict, is a veteran actor who grew up in the Newark ghetto, where "I spent my life avoiding situations that would get me into prison." In 1971 Camillo did go to Sing Sing, however, to help with a prisoners' theater workshop. A year later he opened his own workshop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Players from Prisons | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...Fishnet underwear for ventilation: $10 a set. A down sweater: $30. And a rainsuit: $25-or a poncho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Ah, Wilderness! | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

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