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...when glamour was the ability to steer a slim lady around a dance floor. The other man was bulky, brooding, with the artistic mission to break things: codes of behavior, the very notion of "good acting." In their distinct ways--grace vs. power, gentility vs. menace, tux vs. torn T shirt--Fred Astaire and Marlon Brando represented the poles of 20th century popular culture. Astaire gave it class; Brando gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Culture: High And Low | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...plane on Tuesday, there were two cars waiting. One was a white stretch limo. I got into the other car, since I think large cars are pretentious. Went to my hotel off Central Park, where I changed into my tuxedo. I don't wear a tux very often. Melinda helped me with the cuff links--they're so hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Gates Diary | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...counter he hears seniors cursing themselves for not laying out $200 their first year at college to buy a tuxedo; they now have to suffer their seventh $50 rental. He feels good about his prescient move to purchase his tux in October of his first year...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: A Mere Formality | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

Best entrance: WOODY HARRELSON, who pulled up in a white stretch limo painted with naked women. He was accompanied by LARRY FLYNT, who had earlier been denied a ticket. Harrelson, resplendent in an Armani tuxedo made of hemp (although it looked like every other tux), got Flynt in. Flynt's glitter-encrusted tux, meanwhile, didn't look like anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 7, 1997 | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...finally caved in and bought a tux. Or you got your credit card bill for dinner at the Four Seasons, a corsage/boutiniere, a cab home and two tickets to the Citystep formal. Or you've been wondering what to do Saturday night when all your roommates are at your house winter formal with their boyfriends. One way or another, Harvard's obsession with formals has probably come to your attention...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Formal Functions | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

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