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Word: shirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What would you say about a character who wears a handsomely cut vanilla- colored suit on a winter day in New York, with a lilac tie and matching striped shirt with a collar seven stripes high, and shoes custom-designed to appear to have white spats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Master Of His Universe: TOM WOLFE | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...Committee that they're worried that one of the reasons why Gorbachev is being attacked is that he is viewed as simply a pushover when it comes to dealing with Reagan," says Goldman, adding that they say whenever the general secretary meets with Reagan, he "comes home without his shirt...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: A New Age of Soviet-American Relations | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

...gentlemen in question represent the classic poles of soul. Sweet Pea Atkinson sports an open shirt and a pirate's booty of gold chains that make him look, according to a standing band joke, like "a killer pimp." He worked on a Chrysler assembly line for eleven years; when he sings, his voice is all rough edges, Wilson Pickett-style, that soar and spar. Sir Harry Bowens may still be unknown to Burke's Peerage (relax, guys: his knighthood is self- imposed), but fans of the O'Jays will recognize the cool, platinum elegance of his phrasing. He sang with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chocolate-Covered Razor Blades And other treats from a fun funk band | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...Chevrolet station wagon to the rear of Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, Calif. He stepped out, carrying a Chinese-made semiautomatic AK-47 rifle loaded with 75 bullets. Carved into the AK-47's stock were disconnected words: "freedom," "victory," "Hezbollah." He wore a flak jacket under a camouflage shirt jacket that bore other words, one misspelled: "PLO," "Libya," "death to the Great Satin." He had placed plugs in his ears to dull the sounds of what he was about to do. Patrick Purdy, 26, a drifter with guerrilla-warfare fantasies, had returned to the % school he attended 16 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaughter in A School Yard | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...home amid the panoply of godhood. Instead of the ornate Imperial Palace, Hirohito chose to live in a nondescript two-story Western- style house deep inside the palace grounds. Rather than hold court in resplendent formal dress, he preferred to putter around in battered Panama hat and short-sleeved shirt. More than formal dinners, he relished quiet nights at home with Empress Nagako, now 85, a cheerful wife with whom he had two sons and five daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan The Longest Reign | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

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