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Reagan's election night was festive, Nancy in a long black skirt, some 30 guests from the staff, Cabinet and family. Almost before the group could make respectable headway through the buffet supper, Bush was declared a winner. The White House cranked out the canned victory statement. Reagan made the ritual calls to George Bush and Dan Quayle. His guests drifted into the night and toward the victory celebration in the White House West Wing and delirious parties up and down the capital's broad avenues. Ronald and Nancy Reagan stayed among the White House ghosts and their memories...
Tramping softly through the sandy West Texas soil in her paisley skirt and black leather heels, Pearl Ceasar looks more like the first-grade teacher she used to be than the nun-turned-troublemaker...
...sitcom, but it surely restocks it with human-scale humor. Judd Hirsch stars as a divorced schoolteacher gingerly exploring the single life. On his first visit to a singles group, he meets a sly assemblage of oddballs, including a group leader fixated on sex and a hilariously sleazy skirt chaser (Jere Burns doing Dan Aykroyd's E. Buzz Miller). Executive producer Ed. Weinberger (Mary Tyler Moore) and Director James Burrows (Taxi) are masters at milking a gag till it comes out grade A, and Hirsch's deadpan timing has never been more acute...
...French are inspired by Californians." He points out that eye-scorching colors have been part of the Europeanized surfer look for the past three years. Dress-code breakers, think it over. How about a blazer that is citrus colored instead of navy? What about a pleated uniform skirt covered not with muted plaid but with surfer slogans? And traditionalists: What about some nice blue flannel bike-racing shorts? Wait till next year...
Labeled a "national peaceful protest" to skirt the February ban, the walkout paralyzed manufacturing and transportation throughout the country. Nearly 80% of black service and industrial employees stayed off the job in Johannesburg and other major cities. The Association of Chambers of Commerce estimated the cost of the protest at $250 million nationwide. The sector least affected by the action was South Africa's important mining industry, where less than 10% of black workers put down their tools. Most miners, who live at the mines and are insulated from the political passions of the townships, simply walked to work...