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Word: scarfed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same is true throughout Europe. A Hermes silk scarf is $70 in Paris, $100 in New York City; a bottle of Dom Perignon 1976 is $23 in Paris, $41 in New York. At the Giorgio Armani boutique on Milan's Via Sant' Andrea, a smartly cut black leather jacket is $600, half the price in New York. At Zeiss Optical in Munich, a pair of binoculars costs $815, vs. $1,140. Says Miami Travel Agency Owner Constanza DeFelice: "I even bought two Cabbage Patch dolls in a Madrid department store for less than $20 apiece." "Our tour conductors take people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Traveling Dollar | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Yekaterina ("Auntie Katya"), a 90-year-old in a faded woolen coat and thick brown head scarf, carrying a bag of apples: "No, dear, my family didn't discuss the death when they came home; they were all very tired, so they just went to bed. Chernenko? Oh, we all have to die. They all die, and yet I live on. I'll always have bread. Why do you ask, dear? Was he a relative of yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviets: I Didn't Know Chernenko Was Ill | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Nina, 87, a woman with two rows of silver teeth, dressed in a blue coat and woolen scarf, in Moscow for the day to shop: "I don't know anything about Gorbachev; I only know that we had bread under Chernenko, and we will continue to have it under Gorbachev. There is meat in the shops too. I have a pension, and Gorbachev won't take it away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviets: I Didn't Know Chernenko Was Ill | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...Sensormatic President Ronald Assaf: "They're the ones who cause the real problems." Teen-agers and members of minority groups do their share of filching too, but not as much as had been thought. Says Assaf: "Not many teens shop in places where they could lift a $125 scarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Light Fingers | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...three musicians in the crowd are Bass Player Mark O'Toole, Drummer Peter ("Fed") Gill, both 20, and Lead Guitarist Brian ("Nasher") Nash, 21. Johnson, who is front man as well as vocalist, comes on as the archetypal Brit pop poofter, waving a salmon-colored silk scarf as he wafts his way through Springsteen's Born to Run. Boomed a member of the rehearsal audience at Frankie's Saturday Night Live appearance two weeks ago: "Bruce is better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Frankie Say We Go Big Bang | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

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