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Word: sweets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miyake, the same general rules apply as when Kaplan cases Armani or when Judy Krull checks out Lagerfeld's surprisingly direct and swellegant new line, the first under his own name. In the showroom, armed with order forms, style books, color charts, the buyers, with occasional encouragement and sweet talk from the designers, start to act just like serious shoppers. They pull clothes off racks, hold them up, try them on. Armani's definitive long coats and shorter sexy skirts; his loose, liquid, wool jumpsuits; his jackets with turned-down lapels; his heart-stopping evening wear... heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fall Fashions: Buying the Line | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...game, the Bruins, no masters of psychological tactics, had been reminding the guests of the February fiasco, as if you need to be reminded about 51-goal losses. So with the giant napping on a three-goal pillow in the fourth quarter, the Crimson was ready for some sweet revenge...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Harvard Lacrosse: A Pair of Big Brown Victories | 4/19/1984 | See Source »

...engaged, soon-to-be-engaged, and married couples--alternate between stiffness and competence, depending on how much artificial language their characters spew out. The ones intended to be irritating (Curt Raffi and Jennifer Burton) achieve a bit more success in such instances than the ones who are merely sweet (David Angel and Laurence Bouvard), but this, too, is only partly blameable on the actors. Children in bright dresses, tuneful incidental music by Brooks Whitehouse, and lederhosen all around contribute to the impression of a light and pleasant entertainment, the "comedy" of the title, through which the production meanders with verbose...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Love's Verbosity | 4/10/1984 | See Source »

...called for hope by recording, with Tammi Terrell, the Ashford and Simpson hit "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." His songs also influenced later white artists; the Rolling Stones would re-record his "Can I Get a Witness?" just as James Taylor would re-record his "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: A Life of Musical Healing | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

...that meets the Atlantic about midway between Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga. Simons, pronounced Simmons ("I'm a rare one-m Simons"), lives in this area among the palmettos, scrub oaks, fiddler crabs, and slave descendants who speak Gullah and keep the faith at Marvin's R.O. Sweet Shop and Baby Grand. There, Simons says, "I am a celebrity because I'm white, not even teen-age yet, and possess the partial aura of the Duchess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Auspicious, Artful and Amusing Debuts | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

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