Word: scarfed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donning Levi's and a college T shirt emblazoned STANFORD is not an act of political rebellion but of status seeking. For Soviet youngsters, Western products proclaim to their friends, "I can get what I want." A scarf with a designer signature adds a dash of color to what can be a gray existence. Nor are Soviet officials immune to the temptations; it is often their children who are first to sport the latest Western clothes, courtesy of a trip abroad or a state store reserved for the elite. "What cannot help alarming us," Chernenko said last year...
...Colorado's Larry Esposito found that 1978 sulfur dioxide levels in the Venusian atmosphere were 50 times as high as expected. Since then, the sulfur dioxide lev els have been slowly tapering off, just as they drop after a major volcanic eruption on earth. Another investigator, Fred Scarf of TRW Inc., the spacecraft's builders, disclosed that an on-board instrument called a plasma-wave detector had recorded repeated lightning discharges over two mountain regions. On earth, such electrical activity commonly accompanies volcanic outbursts...
Tony Kraber had come dressed for the occasion: even the scarf he wore around his neck was imbued with almost 50 years of memories. Tall, lean, striding with the assurance of his 78 years, he pushed his way gently through a lobby full of adolescents to the inner room, the one with the stage. He stopped a few steps in, his eyes bright with anticipation, then soft in reverie, as he gazed at the vaguely familiar faces, the piles of photographs and clippings, the mementos of happy times a half-century ago. From across the room a bulky man offered...
...Motion Picture Academy's Oscar for Best Picture, 28 have run more than two hours, and five have been at least three hours long. This year looks to continue the trend: The Right Stuff (3 hr. 11 min.) is sure to be nominated for Best Picture, and Scarf ace (2 hr. 50 min., nearly twice as long as the 1932 gangster classic on which it is closely based) has an outside shot...
...most flamboyant Doctor was No. 4, Tom Baker (1974 to 1981), whose halo of brown curls and 20-ft.-long scarf had a singular appeal for female fans...