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...watch is Wendy, Randy's married-woman girlfriend from Scene One. She is a key source on what's being worn in today's malls. You can try not to laugh as Fashion's Public Enemy #1 saunters by in a short red raincoat with zebra trim or green terrycloth short shorts balanced over lethal-weapon heels...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Women's Cinema Fest, On Love | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...first preliminary bout has already begun. A guy named A1 Stiles is fighting a guy named Mario Moldanado. They are middleweights. Stiles cannot even afford a pair of boxing trunks; he fights in a pair of blue terrycloth shorts. He had entered the ring in a robe of the same material. K-Mart coordinates. Neither one of them can fight. They hardly throw any punches. They miss the ones they throw. Nobody is watching them anyway...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: La Nause'e In The Ring | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...hated to give them up," admitted Muhammad Ali. But the heavyweight soon kayoed his emotions. Thus on June 9, a pair of 8-oz. gloves and a terrycloth robe will join historical memorabilia like Babe Ruth's bat and Eli Whitney's cotton gin on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "It's a great museum with its little cars and trains," observed the champ, who took time out in the capital to mug with a statue of Washington. "My gloves may be more popular," Ali added, referring to the mitts that in 1974 beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 29, 1976 | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...rubs elbows with New York's brightest and best. He hurries home late in the afternoon and makes love to his beautiful, glamorous girlfriend. She asks him to marry her, and he refuses. Eventually he gets down to work--he climbs out of bed, showers, puts on a terrycloth robe, sits down at the typewriter and hammers out a few hundred words. Just as he finishes, a messenger arrives from the Post to pick up his copy...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Success | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...shirts, try the standard jersey or polo shirt, or perhaps even a terrycloth sweater, ideal for beach-wear, since it can double for a towel. As for shoes, go barefoot, if possible, and if not, try tennis shoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Light, Slight Sportswear Needed For Use on Balmier Boston Days | 5/1/1953 | See Source »

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