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Every generation indulges in fashion and cosmetic trends which render it laughable to posterity. Today's college students were innocent by standers during the age of the perilous Platform Shoe, but they were willing (albeit junior) accomplices during the reign of Discowear and the Farrah-Do. Their historical reputation will be further pockmarked by the city dwellers who insist on dressing like cow punchers, cattle wrestlers, and bronco busters...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Outside In | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

...standing there. He had beady eyes. He was grubby looking. He was grabbing the back of my coat. I looked at him and said, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' and proceeded forward ... II started kicking and screaming, I lost my shoe. . . They dragged me over the pool table. . . I was screaming, begging for help. He got on top of me-the first guy-and had intercourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crime That Tarnished a Town: New Bedford's gang-rape case goes to trial | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...part where my hanging clothes will be is as big as some one-bedroom apartments [more than 1,000 sq. ft.]," she notes. "There are shoe and bag rooms with enough space for 300 pairs of shoes and 400 handbags." Before moving in the clothes, she plans to throw a "coming out of the closet" party for 100-in the closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Challenge of Inner Space | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...this time shoe caps and acoustic tiling were getting very interesting and no one standing in line gave much more than a shrug...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Lost in the Fog | 2/25/1984 | See Source »

...wistful exchange between young Ulysses Macauley (Josh Blake) and a passing black trainman (David Johnson), and consolidated later in a gentle gospel anthem for the whole town, Beautiful Music. The pop-music style of the '40s is nostalgically evoked in The Birds, a soft-shoe love song for the assistant telegraph operator, Spangler (Rex Smith), and Diana (Leata Galloway). Most effective of all is a bittersweet canonic letter duet for Marcus (Don Kehr) and his home-front brother Homer (Stephen Geoffreys) that develops into a touching antiwar choral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Bluesy Hymn to Sturdy Values | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

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