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...unappealing image. But, consider that practically everyone back then, men too, was dressing in "proletarian garb." It just became fashionable to not wash your clothes, because who cared what we looked like? There was a cause to fight for. Women realized they no longer had to totter around in spike heels and in pants so tight they couldn't breathe--they realized they did not wish to be "desired" by men as sexually attractive beings. And don't forget the hotpants craze, which every woman, fat or thin, squeezed themselves into...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Recycling a Bad Idea | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

...STRONGEST, MEANEST, hardest-looking queen I had ever seen loomed in the doorway. The restaurant came to a stop. Five foot 11 and 160 lbs. of muscle dressed in spike heeled black leather boots and a clinging black gown, she stood taking a deep drag on her extra long cigarette. A large and capable looking waitress gingerly led her over to the most remote booth and silently prayed there would be no trouble...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: After Midnight: Where Wild Things Go | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...Elizabeth Taylor a star at 12. Now Tatum O'Neal is the one with the Velvet touch. The sequel to National Velvet, ecumenically titled International Velvet, premiered at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center last week. Tatum, sweet 14 and dressed to kill in a silk suit and spike-heeled sandals, was fetchingly on hand. "I didn't even want to become an actress," she confessed. "It just sort of happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 10, 1978 | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...wrote the cover, is a woman. She is also our regular sportswriter and a diehard baseball fan who spent a Southern small-town childhood hoping to make the major leagues. She did enjoy a brief career on the sandlot, but when at 14 she came home bleeding from a spike wound, her mother took a hard stand. Says Phillips: "That's when I became a proper young lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 26, 1978 | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

There is really nothing Rescue can do about such cases except treat the persons as if something was actually wrong, since they can not take chances. Spike said that there is one guy who knows how to perfectly mimic the symptoms of a heart attack. Between the four groups in the Rescue Co. they end up picking him up every couple of months like a regular customer. What annoys the men is that such people tie up the truck and thus could prevent them from making it to someone who really needs them...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: The Dark Side of Cambridge: A Night With Rescue | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

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