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...however hardened I've become, I succumb to fashion's lure. I swore I wouldn't wear short skirts again: I have photos from the last age of miniskirts; I remember trying to bend and sit without total exposure, and I remember how cold it was. And yet, as I dragged out my winter clothes, my hems looked downright dowdy. I'm busy shortening them again. See what a betrayer is the fashion muse? I hate it. I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Ode to a Tyrannical Muse (or Why I Love and Hate Fashion) | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...Blackheart) Savino, an associate of the Genovese crime family, was a man with a mission and a machine gun. As he drove down Scott Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was furious with PECO Corp., a window manufacturer. The company, which had ties to the Genovese family, had started to succumb to overtures by the smaller Lucchese clan. This was cutting Savino out of his kickbacks. So with the blessing of family higher-ups, Savino and a fellow gangster stormed the company's storage yard, pulled out their machine guns and blew to bits more than 200 windows that were sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: The Underworld Is Their Oyster | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...movie centers around a group of friends, and traces their lives following their first introduction to a mysterious "cancer" appearing in gay communities around 1981. Over the years, the group becomes smaller and smaller, as some succumb to the virus and the survivors become increasingly terrified of every personal encounter...

Author: By Abigail N. Sosland, | Title: A Frightful Tale of Truth and Fiction | 7/13/1990 | See Source »

...first, Aung San Suu Kyi will need to get her own political party in order. "There's no ruling out the possibility that the National League for Democracy and the opposition in general could succumb to the old Burmese disease of factionalism," warns a Western diplomat based in Rangoon. Excessive wrangling within the league would provide the military junta with a convenient excuse to delay a transfer of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma Democracy's Latest Convert | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the accordion lobby's triumph threatens to encourage further erosion of the musical landscape. They have already infiltrated a punk band dubbed Polkacide and the backup bands of Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel. Next the city fathers of Detroit; Skokie, Ill.; and St. Paul will succumb and proclaim the accordion their official designated hitter. These cities are unaware that it is the convergence of hundreds of accordion players pumping out The Beer Barrel Polka in unison that depletes the ozone layer. The Red Cross is looking into this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lady Of Spain, I Abhor You . . . | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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