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Lasch's discussion of contemporary emotional life, while apt, is under whelming. He notes that "the contemporary survival mentality...turns from public questions" This statement, while accurate, does not consider the American tradition of shrugging off public life as unimportant or as already hopeless. Implying that he is dealing with...

Author: By John P.O Connor, | Title: Notes From Blunder ground | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

MacDonald's lawyers, who are preparing another appeal of his 1979 conviction, tried unsuccessfully to halt the telecast of Fatal Vision, claiming it would prejudice a prospective jury. Viewers may have a more legitimate beef. Fatal Vision is a dandy detective story, but it slyly skirts the real mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Long Voyage | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

Go ahead and laugh then: at the open-toed sneakers with the six-inch platforms and the skirts for men; at the silvery ensembles that look like space suits for space cases and the heavy sweaters with turtlenecks and bare backs. You might wonder whether the clothes are a deliberate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The New Bad Boys of Fashion | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

There are several things that the French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier and Stephen Sprouse, an American, have in common besides an unreserved transatlantic admiration for each other's work. They are young: Gaultier is 32, Sprouse 31. They have, separately, taken fashion off into fresh territory. Gaultier has seized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The New Bad Boys of Fashion | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

Sprouse's new collection has real butt-tickler skirts ("Everything is six inches above the knee or more") and dresses that seem to have been hit by a blitz of citrus bombs. There are four new Day-Glo colors, including furious fuchsia and lightning yellow. "We're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The New Bad Boys of Fashion | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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