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Footsore and filthy, Dorofeyev then discovered Krasnodar's black market. Here at last, he found a wide assortment of cosmetics, underwear, socks, razors-"everything I could not find in the shops"-but all at inflated prices. A bar of Beautiful Moscow soap that sold for 60? when available in state-run stores was going for $2.25. The service on the black market, though, proved as surly as elsewhere. Snipped the soap seller: "Everything costs what it costs. If you don like the price, don't wash." Said a defeated Dorofeyev: "I had to wash, so I paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Soap Opera | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...used to go for their big night out) to the Souvenir Special Club (there are still dozens of them all over the Bronx--they all have Venetian blinds in the front plate-glass window and they're all fronts for bookie joints); from men eating dinner in their underwear to the opera on the radio...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Raging Paranoia | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...nutritional value of its green "love food" with the help of aging Sex Symbol Angie Dickinson, 49, who in December will sprawl across two pages of recipes in some 18 national magazines. The copy asks: "Would this body lie to you?" Ads for B.V.D.s, now made by Union Underwear Co. in Bowling Green, Ky., are heavy on beefcake: one has a cowboy happily shaving out on the range clad only in skivvies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Bum's Rush in Advertising | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...Diana Canova) and her haranguing father (Danny Thomas). Diana is sweet and smart, but, in the opening episode at least, it is father who knows best: he turns from Jewish mother to father confessor in record time. She must endure his sudden wisdom even as she trades toilet and underwear jokes with the rest of the cast, including her boss (Sheree North), who has an I.Q. of 190 but talks only of trysts with men who dress up in rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Bodies in Question | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...cost of $325,000, Wagner made the trip strapped between the wings of a small, twin-engine plane, where he endured temperatures as low as 22° below zero. "I felt as though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact, clad in wool underwear, a frogman's suit, a ski suit, a leather suit, several wool sweaters and a motorcycle helmet. The frigid feat ended in a small New Jersey airfield, after a ritual circling of the Statue of Liberty and a near collision with the Goodyear blimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 20, 1980 | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

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