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...summer promises lissome beauties basking in appreciative male glances, it will also deliver the "fashion victims," as Women's Wear Daily calls those socialites who swallow the season's fashion feed regardless of what flatters them. "Some women who buy miniskirts surprise me," says Sheila Shahraies, a saleswoman at Ultimode, a pricey leather shop in Los Angeles. "They look terrible, but they want to be in fashion." There may be no quick solution for the thick-thighed, but the weak-kneed are seeking help. This year, in response to the short skirts, cosmetic surgeons report an increased interest in knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Finally, Let There Be Legs! | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...want to frighten me in the way that we were frightening Dave. I admired her intelligence. How clever, I thought, to pretend she was somebody that Dave knew, to let Dave suffer insults, let Dave wonder what monstrosity was lurking at the other end of the line to swallow him up in its beasty claws. Dave could fret, Dave could drive, and Dave would step aside when Cappi threw off her Iowa mask and revealed herself in all her glory...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Fourth Grade Blue | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...fistfight between archrivals Riggs and Joshua at the end of the film: "A bit hard to swallow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mad Mel Gibson Kills Again | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...governor's proposed budget increase "might be a little hard to swallow-we may have to take a bit more cautious and prudent approach" to state spending, Finneran said...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: State Budget to Face Revisions | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...think that putting astronauts into space is a wasteful extravaganza, you won't swallow the conclusions McConnell reaches in his epilogue. He believes that the destiny of mankind lies in the stars, and that the Challenger accident should be understood as only a setback, however tragic, to our colonization of space...

Author: By Gregory R. Bell, | Title: The Seamy Side of the Shuttle | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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