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...evening outfits that could turn First Lady Nancy Reagan into a blue-jeans and turtleneck kind of girl, Bob Hope, 78, Bruce Jenner, 31, and former Football Great Merlin Olsen, 40, dragged out a parody version of Johnny Paycheck's Take This Job and Shove It. The trio were done up as the Mandrake Sisters (read Mandrel! Sisters) for Bob Hope's All-Star Comedy Look at the New Season-It's Still Free and Well Worth It, to be aired on NBC later this month. Though the three woeful crooners belted out the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 14, 1981 | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...myself standing before the Board, wearing my black turtleneck that made me look thin and vulnerable. Dressed this way, I would surprise them with my inner strength, my courage to give all for love. And I wouldnever disclose Christopher's name. If they tortured me, I would never give it. Also, it occurred to me that if, by some lucky and unlikely chance, I was pregnant, and I had kept Christopher out of the trial, he might marry me. Certainly, a trial couldn't hurt...

Author: By Carol G. Becker, | Title: Growing Up Innocent in a Quiet Age | 6/2/1981 | See Source »

This first glimpse of the released Americans, beamed to the U.S. live by satellite, was reassuring. Dressed in an incongruous variety of clothing?Marine fatigues, red T shirts adorned with eagles, turtleneck sweaters and sports shirts?the group looked like healthy, but weary, American tourists as they sat on folding chairs for a 35-minute reception inside the airport terminal. Sipping coffee and orange juice, they expressed themselves in typical American idioms: "Fantastic, absolutely fantastic." "Pretty goddamn good, I'll tell ya." "It's good to be out of Khomeini land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: An End to the Long Ordeal | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...casualness of turtleneck jersey and chino pants, his butcher-boy haircut tousled by the wind, Sagan sends out an exuberant message: science is not only vital for humanity's future wellbeing, but it is rousing good fun as well. Even the most scientifically untutored person can?indeed, must?grasp its essentials. As Sagan insists, "There is nothing about science that cannot be explained to the layman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cosmic Explainer | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...designed by Manhattan's award-winning Stewart Richer, 38, whose sporty suits in cotton and corduroy fetch from $60 to $72. "Boutiques are ordering them like they're $12 T shirts," says Richer. Jump buffs point out that they can be worn to the office with a turtleneck sweater and later accoutered for evening by removing the sweater, unzipping to the cleavage and adding jewelry. Like blue jeans, jumpsuits came to fashion from the wharves and workshops of America-and became modish in Europe. It was after a visit to Paris last spring that Kal Ruttenstein, a Bloomingdale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Teaching Old Togs New Tricks | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

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