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...name is Bruce Springsteen, but you can call him Bruce...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko | Title: Born in the Garden State | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

...able to immobilize telephone lines three times--once in New Jersey (of course), once in Pennsylvania, and once in Washington, D.C. Whenever and wherever a Springsteen concert was announced, pandemonium erupted. When the D.C. date became public, even the White House had trouble communicating whatever it had to communicate all day long. Bruce was even banned from playing in Fox-borough, Mass., an honor previously accorded to Michael Jackson. That means he's really...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko | Title: Born in the Garden State | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

...came out of retirement for this," Barth said. "It's their first dance and the freshmen are really up for it." He swept his arm over the jammed floor while a convoy of writhing flesh oozes by doing a Bunny Hop. Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" resounds throughout the hall. "I mean, who could pass this...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Is This a Mixer? A Meat Market? And Why Are You Here Anyway? | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

...popularity of the 501 comes as a welcome boost for Levi Strauss (1984 revenues: $2.5 billion), which suffered through the designer-jean craze and then a general slump in denim sales. Partly with help from Springsteen, the 501 has been riding a fashion U-turn back to the all-American look. Says Steve Yacker, manager of a Gap clothing store in Manhattan: "Designer jeans are out. The 501 has become a fashion statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clothing: Panting for Bruce's Jeans | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...over the state, each person shelling out $1 for each chance to choose two sets of six numbers. In Manhattan the queues were so long and contained such a variety of people that an unaware visitor might have assumed it was the eve of a joint concert by Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Welk. But the tickets, belched out by computers at a peak rate of 22,000 a minute, bought admission to something else: the Great American Get- Rich-Quick Fantasy. As what the tabloids promptly dubbed Lotto Lunacy became epidemic, some 4,000 outlets across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Headline Is the Winning Numbers 14 17 22 23 30 47 | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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