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Older women A sub-division of the trend-setters, they smoke British cigarettes and seduce proctors. They are not older in years, merely more weary of the world and more prone to peasant skirts, husky laughs, and hoop earings. The never join the trend setters for mid-Yard tanning sessions...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out For Harold And His Friends | 8/10/1982 | See Source »

Though one shouldn't complain about the purveyor of such gloriously purient prose, it is tempting to wonder why Higgins doesn't try something a little more ambitious now that he has buffed the Boston low-life novel to such a perfect shine. The Patriot Game, in fact, would have...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Tough Guys | 4/30/1982 | See Source »

But the women do wear simple, modern clothing--a lovely assortment of pink and blue blouses and skirts. And the male chorus sports smart 1980s army jackets and leather sneakers, and paddles in and out riding blue skateboards. When the gondoliers leave Venice to become kings of Barataria, they puff...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Venetian Treat | 4/21/1982 | See Source »

He was trying, really, to get elegance back into clothing without sacrificing ease. He wanted to find a way of dressing up that looked like dressing down: men's jackets that looked as if they had just been resurrected from a steamer trunk, women's suits that could...

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

PINKY AND DIANNE. Two women who got their start doing custom designs for rock stars, Pinky (Wolman), 36, and Dianne (Beaudry), 37, have simmered down sufficiently since the '70s to produce clothes for men and women that add a silken worldliness to their original down and dirty flash. "We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Cheers for the Home Team | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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