Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those optimists who believe that stock prices and hemlines rise simultaneously, the sidewalks and store windows will provide ample reason for rejoicing this spring. From Rome's Via Veneto to Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, the skirt has moved above the knee. In fact, the miniskirt is back. At Filene's department store in Boston, where one-fourth of all higher-priced junior sales are now minis, Buyer Ann Freedberg exults, "They look right. The timing is right." At the young women's department of Galeries Lafayette, the big Parisian department store, minis are this season...
...Vienna, Irving studied more German, wrote Shyla and began a novel about third-rate cowboys who stage a ridiculous rodeo in New England. The young writer had little experience in that arena; he was once dragged around by a steer for more than five minutes before he was finally able to bring the animal down. But the novel got away from him and eventually he abandoned...
When his father lived in the White House, publicity-shy Steve Ford preferred to make his home on the range and his living by rodeo riding. But the silver screen beckoned a couple of years ago, and Ford got a chance to saddle up with Rod Steiger as a U.S. deputy marshal in a western movie called Cattle Annie and Little Britches. Now Ford, 25, has signed on full time for a CBS daytime soap, The Young and the Restless. This time he plays a nightclub bartender who woos a stripper, played by comely Melody Thomas. Says Ford: "Melody...
...Brooks pushed the denim saga one more chapter, he might have come up with Thorstein Veblen jeans, preferably worn with a vicuna sweatshirt at a Rodeo Drive block party to benefit striking grape pickers. Such scenes belong to theatrical rather than routine life, though today the distinction is often blurred. Star-struck by the endless celebrity parade, a growing number of ordinary people stage self-dramatizations in public places. But are the pseudo John Travolta, roller-discoing among the pedestrians, and the orthodontist attending the U.S. Open dressed like Bjorn Borg intentionally ironic or deadly serious...
Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, 58, erstwhile Scovill Inc. executive and sometime rodeo steer roper, has given the nation a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Reagan Cabinet. The Secretary's insights came in a stand-up monologue, "On the psychology of that jelly bean jar on the Cabinet table, " delivered at the National Press Club. Excerpts from Baldrige 's report...