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As usual, Armani had said it best, but he was not delivering any new message by stopping skirts at mid-thigh. Legs were the hit of Milan. Designers sent insufficiently willowy models right back to the agency and ordered up more and longer legs. Almost every show had minis: Karl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: It's That Old Short Story Again | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

So it is time for a change. But does that mean fashion is harking back to the '60s? Probably not. For one thing, it is no longer possible for anyone to dictate to women the way designers and the glamour press did 20 years ago. Consciousness has soared higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: It's That Old Short Story Again | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

Shot on location in Spain by Italian Director Francesco Rosi and adapted by Rosi and Tonino Guerra, the film boasts some striking images: cigarette girls hike their skirts while suggestively rolling tobacco on their thighs, and smugglers carouse in taverns of dubious salubrity.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COUNTRY: From Heartland to Heartthrobs | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

There have always been women heroines at the Olympics, but they were seen as the exceptions. Although Babe Didrikson at 20 commanded the 1932 Games, she was nicknamed "Muscle Moll" and treated as some kind of miracle instead of a person who had been in training for ten years. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Out of the Tunnel into History | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

That new image is a result of the vitality that is reinvigorating one of America's most famous companies after a period of drift and uncertainty. Last month Sears changed its logo to something resembling slanted racing stripes, only the second redesign in its history and the first in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sear's Sizzling New Vitality | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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