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...wife sat in the front row, wearing an ornately crested Polo blazer, as models taxied along the runway to the strains of Sinatra's The Lady Is a Tramp. The critical favorite of the day: a navy blue cashmere evening dress ($998) that was far more clingy, streamlined and sensuous than any Lauren has dared before. Another hit: a paisley skirt in shimmering panne velvet ($698), a striking companion piece to a sedate wool jacket ($598). Said Lauren after the show: "It all came together. This is the best I've ever felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...result is a lean, sensuous narrative that suggests the existence of a place where affluent, middle-aged manuscripts can go for a rigorous diet and plastic surgery. The surface of The Garden of Eden is taut, chic and strangely contemporary. Newly married David and Catherine have pioneered their own Club Med on the Riviera. It is the perfect place for a sea change. The couple spend golden days brunching, mixing drinks with Perrier, wearing fisherman shirts and espadrilles, swimming and tanning in the buff. The rate of exchange is very favorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Man and the Sea Change the Garden of Eden | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...Dickens, such pluck and clarity of intent are completely captivating. A dud in bookkeeping class but an outstanding English student, Simon manages a transfer to an academic high school. Her lively essays attract attention. She has other notable attributes: blond hair, blue eyes, a sensuous mouth and a fortune in cheekbones. But even James Monroe High is a bit restricting. Foreshadowing the future world traveler, she writes, "I had no time for step- by-step projects; the urgent need was for swift voyages, with short stops at many ports of call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Girl in the Gold Borsalino a Wider World: Portraits in an | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...enthusiasm householders once displayed for renovated living rooms and master bedrooms. The contemporary black-and-gray room with padded wallpaper and a mirrored wall contains a built-in sound sys- tem, a luxurious whirlpool-sauna and tanning bed, and about $4,400 worth of exercise apparatus. "It's very sensuous," says Gaik, 35, who with her husband owns a company that sells health insurance. "My friends almost look at it as an orgy room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Working Out in a Personal Gym | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...poet but who was also a biographer, critic, translator and editor and is probably best known as a historical novelist, most memorably for I, Claudius (1934), a rich reconstruction of Roman life that became a hit mini-series in 1976; in Deia, Majorca, Spain. Graves began publishing his precise, sensuous lyrics while an officer in World War I, during which he was seriously wounded; he recounted that part of his life in the popular autobiography Goodbye to All That (1929). Among his most controversial works was The White Goddess (1948), an erudite but eccentric study of poetic myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 16, 1985 | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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