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...exemplary children's books, had an inspired idea: Why not follow an orchestra as it prepares for performance, not in the pit, but two hours ahead of time? Flutists and cellists, horn players and harpists, men and women climb in and out of tubs and showers, underwear and outerwear, cabs and buses, on their way to the place where, at the finale, they make the most beautiful music this side of Carnegie Hall. Under the baton of Illustrator Marc Simont, every player is treated as an individual and set wittily on the pages like notes on a staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Short Shelf of Tall Tales | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...come here [Oona's] for the silk underwear," said Gabrielle Ross, a Cambridge resident. "You can't get it anywhere else for five dollars...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: 'Costumes to Bands and Coats to Professors' | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

Goes to Dinner and regular contributions to CBS's 60 Minutes, the leprechaun with the deadpan delivery has regaled audiences with the details of his middle-class conformity. His collected TV essays, the bestselling A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, disclosed his suspicions about designer underwear, his shock that no Mrs. Smith exists at Mrs. Smith's Pies, and his habit of saving warranties for appliances long since discarded. What accounts for the popularity of such ordinary views? Rooney thinks it is his compliance: "Rebels are a dime a dozen," he writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suburban Sage | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

Jockey International, which began making men's underwear in 1876, is now planning to offer undergarments for women. The company claims that the move is logical because women are already loyal to the brand since they buy at least 70% of the shorts worn by their husbands or sons. Like men's briefs, Jockey For Her panties will be made of no-shrink cotton. None of that lacy, silky stuff. Jockey President Howard Cooley says the product will be "very feminine, even if it's not highly sensual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jockey's Panty Raid | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...nearest insensate pate and sets off into the cool, hopeful night. She will search for a man who might love her, for a man with the dirt of experience beneath his fingernails, for a man who might rekindle her lust for life--for a man who wears Hanes underwear...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi | 9/28/1982 | See Source »

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