Word: silks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wait till you do hard time, boy. They'll pat your butt, they'll feel you. You'll come home swishing like a girl." A huge dude, his muscles rippling, speaks in a cool bass: "I got a pah" of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes my clothes 15 times a day. Learn to hustle girls, and you can wear dark shades and sharkskin suits and ride a big white Caddy." Riff the horn player sniffs in disgust. "You've got to have dignity...
Cambridge police yesterday arrested a 28-year-old Boston man for allegedly stealing two silk shirts from a Dunster Street clothing store, after the store's owner pursued the suspect and found him in a health food store a block away...
...owner of the clothing store-Rogers of Harvard Square, on 20 Dunster St.-said yesterday that at about 2 p.m., she noticed two $74 silk shirts missing from the store's racks and suspected that the customer leaving the store at the time had stolen them. After calling the police, she ran out of the store, but could not find the customer, so she ran a block east to Holyoke Street, Where she spotted him on the corner of Mr. Auburn Street...
Government officials credit their achievement to aggressive rural-development programs, innovative military tactics and a healthy dose of Communist squabbling. To win the peasants to its side, Bangkok provided new varieties of rice, and imported silkworms to stimulate silk production. Instead of staging massive military operations against guerrilla enclaves, the army intensified its psychological-war effort. "Before, when we captured a Communist, we just pushed him out of a helicopter," Major General Sudsai Hasdin told TIME Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss. "But this use of force just gave the Communists a propaganda advantage...
...role in the film version of Ira Levin's Deathtrap, Actor Michael Caine is dressed to kill in a $2,500 Sulka robe and a pair of $300 silk Gucci pajamas. Caine, 47, plays Sidney Bruhl, a writer of stage thrillers who has not had a Broadway hit in years. Then a former student of his, played by Christopher Reeve, 28, turns up at his converted windmill in East Hampton, N.Y., with a murderously good play. In a plot with more twists than a Chubby Checker concert, Bruhl conspires with his wife (Dyan Cannon) to take over the manuscript...