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...Prefab Sprout...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...time, Dolby also has been producing a much-touted band from Scotland with the world's wimpiest name, Prefab Sprout. Contrary to popular belief, this group, headed by the brothers McAloon, did not pick up their moniker from a vegetarian dish at a SoHo restaurant--but they might as well have. Soft-pop is a term too readily used by critics: lately, it serves to describe everyone from Huey Lewis to X. Instead, let's call this musical melange soft-porn: it is that foul...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...hail Prefab Sprout's second album, STEVE McQUEEN. Imagine, if you dare, Aztec Camera with twice the accent plus lousier lyrics times silly Linda McCartney backround singing...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...older cohort" in mind, will turn out stuff specifically for them: not, as might be expected, denim editions of Roman soldier gear, but a line of shirts, sweaters and slacks designed by Perry Ellis. Brooke Shields is fronting her own line of sportswear and highlights a kind of prefab insouciance. With all this, however, tradition will not be forsaken. "People always come back to basics," insists Hervey. "There is no more practical piece of apparel than a pair of cotton denim jeans. They give you a good, free feeling of comfort." This year Levi's will spend $36 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions: Beyond the Blues Horizon | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

They are situated above grocery stores, in prefab buildings, near noisy bars and open sewers and on the grounds of abandoned convents. Goats and chickens come with the terrain, as do water shortages, blackouts and the occasional political coup. Many lack facilities normally considered standard: research libraries, X-ray machines, fresh cadavers. But for about 15,000 U.S. students desperate to become doctors, the makeshift medical schools that dot the Caribbean represent a last chance. Failure to get into graduate schools in the U.S. once meant flying off to universities in Mexico, Italy or the Philippines. Lately, students have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Crackdown in the Caribbean | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

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