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Some designers, however, have a different recollection. While agreeing that Mrs. Reagan has purchased many items, they say she has definitely borrowed others and has not returned all of them. Los Angeles designer David Hayes said Mrs. Reagan has borrowed 60 to 80 expensive, made-to-order outfits from him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Mrs. Reagan Still Looks Like a Million | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

The customary Olympic isms -- commercialism and jingoism -- were common colds next to the pestilence of cynicism, sexism and racism spread by the mere fact of anabolic steroids and by a rampant suspicion that Johnson's miscalculation was not in usage but in dosage. The Jamaican-born Canadian with fast feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illusions Lost and Regained | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

Politicians are suckers for the Schwab's drugstore myth. So when George Bush plucked Dan Quayle from obscurity and made him his running mate, he no doubt thought he had discovered a raw young talent who could be molded into a Lana Turner sensation, a blue-eyed Everyboy who could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tory Texan and the Indiana Kid | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

But it was Griffith Joyner's performance in the 100 meters that caused the real sensation at the trials. In the blistering sun (the track heated up to 115 degrees), Griffith Joyner atomized Evelyn Ashford's 1984 world record. Track aficionados found it hard to believe that this relative novice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: For Speed and Style, Flo with the Go | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

But the odd-duck-technique sensation of the trials was 100-meter Back Specialist David Berkoff, a slim-to-skinny anthropology major from, of all places, Harvard. Backstrokers coil their bodies against the side of the pool before the start, then shove violently backward with their legs, hands together, streamlined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track: The Long And Short of It | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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