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...clock in the evening is a slow, sullen hour in Sin City, a.k.a. Lost Wages. "I'm tired," whines a member of the United States Twirling Association. "C'mon, we're supposed to be having fun," snaps her companion, a clone. In razor-crease jeans and stiletto heels they stamp into the ladies' room, flounce around the corner past the polished washbasins and disappear into the two long rows of toilet stalls. They are the kind of girls who obey their mothers' warnings never to sit on strange toilet seats. Attendants have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...Thee. The slight plot and Stephen Schwartz's exuberant score, which in the 1971 premiere seemed purely a product of flower power, hold up surprisingly well: the youths who eventually join up with Jesus have been reconceived by Director Gregory Peterson as 1980s punk rockers with spiky hair, stiletto heels and spooky makeup, and their menacing manner lends urgency to the effort to convert them to righteousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Great Expectations in Canada | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...appearances are anything, the 17th century certainly seems to agree with Faye Dunaway, 41. As does her near typecasting in the role of heroine-bitch. Hard on the stiletto heels of her portrait of Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, Dunaway is playing the Margaret Lockwood part in a remake of the saucy 1945 film, The Wicked Lady. In this version, to be released next spring, Dunaway plays Lady Barbara Skelton, a country lady of leisure by day who hits the road as a highwaywoman at night. Her part is decidedly wicked-but with a difference. "I've always played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 6, 1982 | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

...diverse talents and temperaments who together stood guard over America's secrets for much of the postwar era. Observes Martin: "Where Harvey had raged against the Soviet threat with basso profundo and six-shooter, Angleton seduced with a hypnotic blend of brilliance and mystique. Angleton was the Italian stiletto to Harvey's German Luger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lives of Luger and Stiletto | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...grapefruit juice, Jessica Savitch, bright pink lipstick, Oxford shirts, marriage, Paddington Bear, diaphragms, Ansel Adams, cone-heel shoes, Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto heels, Irving Wallace, T shirts, crock pots, Snoopy, cowboy boots, Jane Pauley, nylon undies, open shirts and Mork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 14, 1980 | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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