Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowadays there is a range of colors available for tuxes (like the sun- doused pastels in After Six's "Miami Vice" collection), as well as a scale of prices that rise from the bargain basement ($139 for a polyester- blend model made in Hungary) to $3,500 for a hand-tailored cashmere or silk number from William Fioravanti in New York City. "There are only about 500 of us in the world who own these Fioravanti tuxedoes," boasts New Jersey Entrepreneur Joe Taub, who swanks up his with diamond-and-ruby studs. Giorgio Armani works subtle and cunning variations...
...Stories there is a down-home talent show, replete with dueling auctioneers and a chorus line of just plain folks wrapped in Old Glory. What makes the scene -- pure performance art -- so arresting, though, is not its content but its location. In the X-ray light of the setting sun, each catwalk and scaffold of a makeshift stage stands silhouetted against the empty spaces of the plains. At this instant, the vision of another artist leaps to mind: the spaceship sequence from Einstein on the Beach...
...might come from a growth-stimulating chemical in the cells targeted by the nerves. Her hunch was confirmed in 1952 when she observed that single nerve cells, taken from chick embryos and cultured with tissue from mouse tumors, sprouted nerve fibers that reached out "like the rays of the sun." Her conclusion: there was growth factor in the tumor tissue...
...Fenway Park, foreshadowing their final two staggers in Boston, took California Pitcher Don Sutton, 41, back to his root-beer days. "The last time I saw a game like this," he said wistfully, "the coach wouldn't take us to the Tastee-Freez." Ground balls were lost in the sun, popups in the shadows, but Grich looked the most misplaced of all, blaming Third Base Coach Moose Stubing too savagely for botching a signal. Grich remains spry enough at 37 to lash game-winning hits, but he had grown too old for baseball and after the last out retired...
...next day the sun warmed Fenway, and the Red Sox once again warmed my soul, showing the Angels that wining by seven runs isn't so hard...