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...main selling point of the 76-year-old Filen's Basement is its "automatic markdown policy filen's buys overstock and irregulars form what it calls grit and glamorous stores, and then resells it at discount determined by a now famous formula. If the item sits on the rack for f12 days its initial prose will be cut by 25 percent. After six more days, the price is reduced 50 percent with in another six 75 percent. And if a piece of clothing doesn't sell by 30 days after it first hits the floor, Filen's gives...

Author: By Shair Rudavsky, | Title: Bustle in the Basement | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...camel hair coat was stolen from a coat rack in the men's locker room at Hemenway Gym last Tuesday...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Two Local Men Arrested For Cocaine Possession | 3/9/1985 | See Source »

Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual, for anyone without access to electric entertainment of any form, has become the first debut album in history to rack up four top-five singles. Name those tunes and, very likely, you can sing a chorus, along with all the Lauper loopies who cover the age spectrum, from dress-alike five-year-olds to grannies gone groovy: All Through the Night; She Bop, which inverted Gene Vincent's classic Be-Bop-a-Lula into a thoroughly unapologetic paean to female autoeroticism; Time After Time; and Girls Just Want to Have Fun, a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: These Big Girls Don't Cry | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Cordless and snout-shaped, the Dustbuster is 14 1/4 in. long and weighs 1.4 lbs. To clean up small domestic disasters, the user grabs the Dustbuster from its wall rack, vacuums up the mess and returns the machine to its base. There, its three nickel-cadmium batteries are recharged so that it will be ready for the next spill. Life expectancy: 150 hours, or five years of 15-to-20-second bursts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketbuster: The vac that roared | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

According to FBI agents, the red-haired Yarbrough, 29, is a former member of an Idaho-based neo-Nazi group called Aryan Nations. Yarbrough and five other members of the group were charged last week with a pair of armored-rack robberies worth more than $4 million. Yarbrough is also charged with opening fire on three FBI agents outside his home in October. The formidable arms cache discovered in his home after his arrest included crossbows, plastic explosives, hand grenades, night-vision scopes and semiautomatic rifles. Said Yarbrough: "The Bible tells me to prepare for the day of destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explosive Find | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

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