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Word: propsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government may be serious business, but the trend in political advertising this year is to make your point with a punch line. Candidates are taking to the airwaves with props and gimmicks to get their messages, and their names, across to a frequently indifferent public. In person and on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having the Last Laugh | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Hi there, boys and girls! Just when you thought it was safe to sleep late on Saturday mornings, here comes Pee-wee's Playhouse, a TV show starring Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman. The half-hour program, which will premiere this weekend on CBS, consists of Pee-wee's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 15, 1986 | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

Lauren has a Broadway producer's flair for launching large fashion collections. Boldly and with apparent ease, he markets clothing lines that contain dozens of items linked by a single conceptual theme. He came by such ; skills the hard way: Lauren's first high-volume production, his launch of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

The Madison Avenue store, on which Lauren has lavished more than $14 million, is his ultimate showcase and testing laboratory. In many ways the store rewrites the textbook for upscale retailing. Built in 1895 as the home of a wealthy heiress, the five-story limestone structure had been divided into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

Lauren oversees his empire and its 1,000 employees in a ten-floor warren of offices that occupy a narrow, prewar building on Manhattan's West 55th Street, about 15 blocks north of the hectic garment district. The decor of Lauren's headquarters suggests the backstage of a theater: cramped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

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