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...higher altitudes of the fashion business. He gave up going to a favorite restaurant because the owner, with Italianate reverence, insisted on calling him maestro, and he treats the fine art of fashion with fitting insouciance. "My ideas may come from unimportant things," he says with a shrug. "From a book, a film, from talking to my staff or from watching how people behave and live. I cannot allow myself the luxury of waiting for 'the moment of inspiration.' I design clothes that can be produced at a certain cost, that can be sold and can be worn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giorgio Armani: Suiting Up For Easy Street | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...only about 18 safe districts, meaning that the Democrats could wind up with a nine-seat advantage this fall. "It resembles nothing so much as a jigsaw puzzle designed by an inmate of a mental institution," wrote Dan Walters, a columnist for the Sacramento Union. Said Burton with a shrug: "It's my contribution to modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Zigzag Art of Politics | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Gilford is ideally cast; he appears to have been drawn by Maurice Sendak for the occasion, and he can suggest an entire shtetl with a shrug. But, save for the narrator (Joe Silver), he is supported by performers who believe that Yiddishkeit is suggested by saying already every two minutes. Nor is he aided by Director Milton Moss's attempts to create crowd scenes by bunching his cast in clumps. Doubtless the profit motive made the producers wheel a pushcart show to the Broadway stage. They might have recalled another Yiddish proverb: The longest road is the one that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pushcart Show | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...enter." As to what she is not-including the "bitch" her enemies accused her of being-Sheed is less sure. She is not "a heartless schemer," she is not a "cold climber." Certainly she is not just "Luce's woman." In the end, all he can do is shrug and quote his subject: " 'Do not defend me' is almost her heraldic motto, and I'll do my best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Woman of Serial Lives | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...affair, and they are not going to care for Writer-Director Towne's deromanticized view of the romance either. Neither are determined heterosexuals, who like to turn situations like this into tragedy-everyone tortured by irresistible forces, guilts and a society that misunderstands and condemns. Towne seems to shrug and allow as how these things do happen. Besides, he implies, since the ladies are Americans, they are a lot more interested in working hard and getting ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On Track: Chariots of Desire | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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