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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Del Ray has the solution--the "Yuppie Drinking Helmet...

Author: By Russ Muirhead, | Title: Entrepreneur Sells Drinking Helmet | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

...Ray says that his helmet will prove to be the salvation of the Harvard student who is so busy that drinking has to be forgone. "I think Harvard people were the first Yuppies," he says. "You have the original Oxford cloth button down shirts...

Author: By Russ Muirhead, | Title: Entrepreneur Sells Drinking Helmet | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

...there are some problems standing in the way of Del Ray's breaking into the Harvard niche. A blue "Y" decal on the helmet, which stands for Yuppie, looks remarkably similar to the Yale...

Author: By Russ Muirhead, | Title: Entrepreneur Sells Drinking Helmet | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

...Dewitt finishes this column, his eyes seize on a ray of hope, a certain hope for Nature's final triumph over the inevitably jaded sensibilities and efforts of Man. The Beacon Hill Cinema in beautiful downtown Boston unveils GODZILLA 1985 this weekend, a film which should be subtitled "Nature's Ultimate Weapon." The fire-spitting monster once again proves to be the most effective remedy to the crime, filth, traffic problems, pornography, impoliteness, inflation, hypocrisy and general yuck which accumulates every time Man decides to congregate in groups of more than four. Raymond Burr also stars in this latest incarnation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Can't Fool Mother Nature | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

Cable's freedom from network restrictions, however, has also given rise to more ambitious fare. HBO last summer anticipated this fall's anthology trend with its fine Ray Bradbury Theater, three original stories by the famed fantasy writer. The tales were seductive and creepy (in The Crowd, a man notices that the same group of bystanders shows up at car accidents across the city). Three more episodes are scheduled for this season. Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theater on Showtime, meanwhile, continues to provide imaginative family fare. In December, Duvall will launch a second Showtime series, Tall Tales, which will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Networking: Cable goes in for sitcoms | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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