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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nancy Reagan struggled in her memoirs to explain why some people had objected to her "borrowing" designer dresses while she was First Lady. "One reason may be that some women aren't all that crazy about a woman who wears a size 4, and who seems to have no trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cute Number For the Taxman | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

As part of its required audit of the Reagans' taxes during their White House years, the IRS's Los Angeles field office is considering information provided by M. Chris Blazakis, former executive vice president for James Galanos, one of the designers who provided Mrs. Reagan dresses on a need-to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cute Number For the Taxman | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

The growing vogue for stair climbing has been made possible by the development of new and better machines. They come in a dozen different models, including several home versions, that are easier to use and much more widely available than earlier devices. Over the past year, many health clubs have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: America Goes Stair Crazy | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Stealing that pretty little evergreen from a neighbor's backyard and setting it up as a Christmas tree in your living room is a dirty trick. But some enterprising Coloradans are striking back at would-be tree snatchers with a pungent recipe: fox urine, a drop or two of skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas: Eau de Skunk For Thieves | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

H.L. Mencken, the iconoclastic journalist who delighted in debunking the "booboisie," is being debunked himself. An abridged version of his diaries will arrive in bookstores this month. In journal entries written between 1930 and 1948, Mencken emerges as a hypochondriac with an anti-Semitic streak. In one passage he noted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maryland: Mencken's Musings | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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