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...opium refineries and ruthlessly held sway over the entire region. The Thai soldiers promptly took up battle lines on one side of the town's main street. Ten yards away stood the surprised drug traffickers, many of them routed from bed and still in their underwear-but heavily armed with automatic weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: The Great Opium War | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...Kings Canyon national parks. It is an experience in mountaineering as well as skiing. The route rises 6,000 ft., almost straight up from the roadhead, to peaks of 13,000 ft. and more. One requirement: a small radio transmitter for avalanche protection. Other arcana may include polypropylene underwear, vapor-barrier booties and avalanche-probe ski poles. The reward of the trek is skier's cocaine: unmarred 1,500-ft. alpine slopes. Experts claim the trail is the equal of Europe's Haute Route from Chamonix, France, to Zermatt, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Cross-Country Inns Are In | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...Salvador. According to the army, the victims were subversives who put up an armed resistance to the raid. But most independent observers agree that the victims were unarmed residents who were taken from their homes by the soldiers and shot. Many of the corpses were clad only in their underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: To Save El Salvador | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

LaVERGNE and company have a bit more success with Purlie's intermittent scenes of serious philosophy. The portrait of the racially divided rural South ("split like a fat man's underwear") is often genuinely moving. LaVergne's accomplished declamatory style spruces his long, fiery sermons--giving his dreams of an integrated congregation and a valley of Black workers finally free from debt a poignancy and urgency that is Purlie's strongest point...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Purlie's Paltry Persuasion | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

...Black underwear, in the popular imagination, is always erotic . . . however, it may also indicate a practical nature, since black always looks fresh. . . Such simple black underthings are often worn by thoughtful, intellectual women who take sex very seriously. Lacy and revealing black lingerie, on the other hand, is sophisticated, daring and occasionally wicked in its implications. Women who prefer it are more likely to become bored with partners, places and sexual positions; they are also less likely to sit up in bed exclaiming tearfully, 'Oh, this is awful! What am I doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exposing Secrets of the Closet | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

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